High rise apartment towers are everywhere in metropolitan Toronto. There certainly is no lack of space, but Toronto sees itself as the New York City of Canada. Jet setters and buckskin homesteaders find their way to the exciting amount of commerce in this northern city. Toronto invented the downtown shopping mall with its three level Eaton Center (above). A parking garage is intergrated into the mall and the many storefronts on streets around it are easily accessible.

The downtown retail section is youth oriented with lots of record stores. The streets are narrow in downtown Toronto. There is a subway, but the European style trollies have been decommissioned.
At one time Toronto was famous for its semi-circular city hall complex. With the arrival of the go-go 1970's and 1980's these rather short skyscrapers became greatly overshadowed. Not only were the traditional office towers reaching world-class heights, but Toronto built the world's tallest freestanding observation tower: The CN Tower. Next to this 1800 foot tower is the Skydome, a football and baseball stadium with a removable roof.

Toronto has been developing architectural attractions for decades. Ontario Place is a theme park along the lake built on the heals of Montreal's World's Fair of 1967. The 1990's were to see yet an even bolder downtown development, but the real estate market went bust. Too many offices and apartments had been built in the 1980's.