What kind of city does Toronto want to become?

Debates about how Toronto grows mostly run on abstractions. Regulations are added and removed while the vision itself can feel like an afterthought.

Impossible Toronto imagines a form of Toronto that cannot legally be built today. None of these buildings are difficult to construct; just the opposite: every part of them already exists somewhere. And yet, for all their ordinariness, they are impossible in Toronto under today's rules. Projects here make real proposals measured to real lots along typical streets. And each proposal allows us to see its Matrix of Impossibilities: a careful accounting of the rules that, for better or for worse, make it impossible.

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Image by Brandon Bergem for Impossible Toronto: On the Side Street.