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It’s not entirely bad that Toronto’s insistence on “contextualism” is continuing to remind developers and architects of what their forerunners got right a hundred years ago. The problem with contextualism is that contemporary Toronto architects, while they ought to be good students of the things that have historically made cities work well, should be able to design mid-rises and high-rises without having to worry about forcing their new buildings to curtsey to old ones, says John Bentley Mays.
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