Another interesting comparison would be to include the inner pedestrian realms of the megablocks–so we’d see the PATH system of Toronto as a system of streets undercutting the large block patterns. I’m always a little depressed when I walk the PATH–thinking about the fact of all those “missing” pedestrians in the public realm above–and always a little surprised when I resurface, to find that even with the thousands and thousands of people streaming along in their underground conduit, there are still quite a few folks on the real streets, too.

By the way, although the Star never gave credit, I think I recognize the plans it produced as being from the Allan Jacobs book, “Great Streets”–you probably know it. I found a representative sample through google images just now (note misspelling of Allan Jacobs’s name): http://tinyurl.com/yu5cle