No recent development in Toronto has changed the city’s skyline like Cityplace, the collection of thin glass skyscrapers — called “point towers” — located just to the west of the Rogers Centre. They mirror the blue sky by day and shimmer with light at night like a thousand fishbowls stacked high. All this magical modernism ends about two storeys from the ground where the urban design becomes suburban scaled: too much space given to cars and service entrances make it feel like an Ikea parking lot. Jane Jacobs said it takes 20 years for a neighbourhood to come into its own — maybe we just have to wait for this area to get better.

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