The Region in Transition - 2014 Video
The Radical Shift in Employment
Watch Toronto grow from a small city in 1900 to a world class regional economy in this short 8-minute video. It animates the remarkable change in highways, transit and commercial real estate development over the last 100 years.
The video is an example of how visualization of complex data and evidence can provide new insights. Did you know how dramatically commuter travel plans have changed in the last 30 years? The 905 now has more employment than many cities in Canada. Planners in the 60’s and 70’s could not have foretold this nor were adequate investments in mobility considered then. This must change.