{"id":19106,"date":"2011-04-07T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=19106"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:12:21","slug":"spacing-satellite-odd-city-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/07\/spacing-satellite-odd-city-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Satellite: Odd City Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spacng Satellite\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/toronto\/feature-SATELLITE-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Satellite challenge is a classic game of &#8220;One of these things is not like the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19107\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/07\/spacing-satellite-odd-city-out\/satelliteapril1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19107\" title=\"One of These Things Doesn't Belong\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/04\/satelliteapril1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/04\/satelliteapril1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/04\/satelliteapril1-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve probably guessed, today&#8217;s satellite images come from a little beyond GTA boundaries. From top to bottom, the cities shown are Milan, Amsterdam, Chicago, Frankfurt, and Chongqing. Can you tell which of these five cities doesn&#8217;t belong in this group?<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><br \/>\nReady to see which of these five cities is out of place in today&#8217;s group?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/4863379.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/4863379\/\">Which one of these cities doesn&#8217;t belong?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Just over half of you picked Chicago as today&#8217;s misfit, with <em>Spacing<\/em> reader Torontonian noting in the comments below that he singled the city out because it&#8217;s the only one pictured with a regular grid pattern layout. That said, today&#8217;s correct answer is actually <strong>Amsterdam<\/strong> \u2013 not because of its urban form, but because today&#8217;s other four cities share a special connection to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Milan, Chicago, Frankfurt, and Chongqing are all considered &#8220;sister cities&#8221; (or, formally, &#8220;Partnership cities&#8221;) of Toronto as part of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/invest-in-toronto\/international-alliance-program.htm\">International Alliance Program.<\/a> On a smaller scale, these partnerships are known as &#8220;twin towns,&#8221; but don&#8217;t confuse sister cities and twin towns with cities twinned by geographic proximity, like Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge. Rather, these connections come as a reflection of networking in our globalizing world.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s overview\u00a0of its own approach to this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lists_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities\">popular practice<\/a>\u00a0explains that it aims to &#8220;strengthen economic, cultural, tourism, and multicultural links internationally,&#8221; with partnerships established based &#8220;on the partner and friendship city&#8217;s demographics, economic growth and similarities, GDP, and the potential for investment.&#8221;\u00a0Of the city&#8217;s current Partnership cities, Chongqing has had the longest relationship \u2013 its sisterhood with Toronto began in 1986, followed by Frankfurt in 1989, Chicago in 1991, and Milan most recently in 2002. Mayors of sister cities make a point of arranging occasional family reunions \u2013 most recently, David Miller undertook <a href=\"http:\/\/wx.toronto.ca\/inter\/it\/newsrel.nsf\/56025a97a57611d485256dde005a4473\/08fe67eb2be8db24852574120059e0f4?OpenDocument\">a business mission to Chongqing in 2008<\/a> (covered by <em>The Star <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/World\/article\/416357\">here<\/a>),\u00a0following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wx.toronto.ca\/inter\/it\/newsrel.nsf\/7017df2f20edbe2885256619004e428e\/f56995069567145d85256f4d0063bf0e\">a trip to Frankfurt<\/a> taken in 2004. For another family tie, Christopher Hume also touched on a bit of sibling rivalry when he noted in a column that Toronto&#8217;s loss of Expo 2015\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/gta\/columnist\/article\/634710\">was Milan&#8217;s gain<\/a>. Meanwhile, Chicago maintains\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagosistercities.com\/cities\/e_toronto.php\">a great page<\/a> detailing all of its own annual interactions with Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s odd city out \u2013 Amsterdam \u2013 was actually a past sister city of Toronto, but it was not made a Partnership city when Toronto revised its designation framework for sister cities in 2005. It was, however, briefly reclassified as a &#8220;Friendship city,&#8221; and an enhanced program request to upgrade both Amsterdam and Warsaw to full Partnership city status was floated around in 2006 before ultimately being denied [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/legdocs\/2006\/agendas\/council\/cc060329\/cl001.pdf\">PDF<\/a>, page 423]. Now, it seems Amsterdam has instead lost any formal affiliation with Toronto \u2013 although I haven&#8217;t been able to find a City document covering this change, Amsterdam is no longer listed as a Friendship city on the City&#8217;s International Alliance Program page. Those cities that <em>are<\/em> listed as current Friendship cities include Warsaw, Poland; Sagamihara, Japan; Kyiv, Ukraine and, as of 2006, newly approved additions Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Quito, Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Toronto&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostrivers.ca\/points\/cities.htm\">Amsterdam Square<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2007\/06\/the_undertow_the_amsterdam_bridge\/\">Amsterdam Bridge<\/a> both get their names from the city&#8217;s former sisterhood with the Netherlands&#8217; capital. Amsterdam Square was named in 1974 when the sisterhood first began, while Amsterdam Bridge was named in 1978, when it was opened with a visit from Amsterdam&#8217;s mayor at the time, Wim Polak. Similarly, Amsterdam&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramsterdam.com\/panos\/torontobrug.html\">Torontobrug<\/a> across the Amstel River is named after our city.<\/p>\n<p>For more insight into what goes into considering such a city partnership, this 2006 City document [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/legdocs\/2006\/agendas\/council\/cc060614\/edpcl005a.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] covers requests to establish relationships with Lisbon, Montego Bay, Monaco, and Manila. All were ultimately rejected, with geographic proximity to other sister cities, economic structure, and mismatched demographics relative to Toronto all cited as considerations. 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