{"id":944,"date":"2006-07-02T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=944"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:54","slug":"the-new-suburbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/07\/02\/the-new-suburbia\/","title":{"rendered":"The new suburbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/readingcities.com\/images\/uploads\/RT-kpmbvaughan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Ouellette, the editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingt.readingcities.com\/\">Reading Toronto<\/a>, also writes for the National Post and had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingt.readingcities.com\/index.php\/toronto\/comments\/1221\/\">good article in yesterday&#8217;s paper<\/a> about the development of the Vaughan City Centre now that the Spadina-University subway extension looks to be heading that way. I have made a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/index.php?s=vaughan+and+subway\">few short posts<\/a> on this subject before, but Robert covers it off nicely in his piece. Here&#8217;s a excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Toronto&#8217;s waterfront and the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts attracting much deserved media attention, changes taking place at the edge of the city have escaped unnoticed. That is too bad because the City of Vaughan may be about to challenge the way we think about suburbs by creating a civic space as engaging as any found in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>For years, Toronto residents watched awestruck as small towns north of the city sprawled their way into full-fledged cities. Vaughan is an example. About 29,000 people lived there in 1981. By 2001, that number grew to 185,000. With growth that fast, there is little time for attention to details &#8212; build one street, move on to the next and add a strip mall destination for cars on the corner &#8212; fast.<\/p>\n<p>The result is, of course, that many of these suburban cities lack the considered civic and urban amenities that provide older cities a sense of place and community. Cars are king. Do you ever wonder why some 20,000 suburban kids flood into downtown Toronto on Saturday nights? This might just be one of the reasons: they hunger for a sense of cultural identity.<\/p>\n<p>Bucking the trend, politicians in Vaughan wanted a civic centre to focus their community&#8217;s unique identity in a distinctly urban way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Ouellette, the editor of Reading Toronto, also writes for the National Post and had a good article in yesterday&#8217;s paper about the development of the Vaughan City Centre now that the Spadina-University subway extension looks to be heading that way. 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