A big part of Toronto's urban / transit problem is that the quality of urban / transit planning is just remarkably poor. We might be building, but its the wrong things and too late.

If:
Samuel Taylor-Coleridge = Poet

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor= Composer

Then:
Ralph Vaughan Williams = Composer

Ralph Williams Vaughan = Poet?

Some historical precedents for ground-oriented denser housing choices (what I dubbed #GentleDensity and what @danielparolek.bsky.social called #MissingMiddle) make you melt.

This is Schnoor Quarter in Bremen, Germany.

Nothing stops us from building something like this today, except our rules.