Graeme Stewart and Torontos

Torontos: To many, they are eyesores, but for more than half a million people, they are home. But all agree that Torontos post-war apartment towers will fray the citys social and economic fabric unless there is a new vision for them, according to The Star. With the second-highest concentration of high-rise apartment buildings in North America, Torontos 1,200 vertical neighbourhoods were primarily built in the 50s, 60s and 70s for middle-income earners, according to ERA Architects associate Graeme Stewart, a key consultant on the Tower Renewal project and co-author of the Greater Golden Horseshoe report and There are 1,200 rental apartment buildings in the City of Toronto, home to 549,000 people. Source: City of Toronto The solution, according to the citys United Way-sponsored Tower Renewal program, isnt to cut the old threads and start anew in the U.S., many post-war tower blocks were demolished but to weave Torontos high-rise, low-income neighbourhoods more tightly together with the citys more prosperous ones. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.