Between the lines

摘要

The form of Toronto's city centre is immediately legible to any newcomer. From its mid-rise CBD, passing an intermediate layer of adapted industrial buildings, pedestrian visitors soon reach the low-rise residential districts that make Toronto distinctive. With scale and density in equilibrium, Toronto is a rarity, where relatively large-scale changes are achieved without losing urban cohesion. Residential districts are dense and anything but suburban, allowing large detached and semi-detached dwellings to produce coherent and harmonious streetscapes. Occasionally opportunities arise to increase density, as here with this narrow house, that provides space for a valuable family dwelling. Barely 5m in width, the plot was considered 'undesirable' by so-called market experts and had been neglected.