How do you solve Toronto’s city planning problems? Scrap it and build another city on top!
Upper Toronto is an ambitious performance project to design and propose to the public the building of a new Toronto above the current one: the CN restaurant might be ground level, or imagine a city sitting on top of Bay Street towers. When Upper Toronto is finished, all residents of Lower Toronto will move up and Lower Toronto transformed into some combination of intentional ruin, national park, and farmland.
This is, of course, a terrible idea. But it is a terrible idea that might let us imagine and perform possibilities and questions about what kind of world we might want if we could start fresh.
If it actually got to the referendum stage that would be incredible. My step dad had worked for the city for years trying to improve the infrastructure faults. He would have loved the intent of this idea also as a fan of sci-fi. (RIP)
Can you imagine if we could build an entirely new city from scratch in a location that actually made sense? I mean without having to lift it over another one. Old cities are effed.
