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This is a typology of Street-wallability for Hurontario Street in Mississauga ON. 





These are existing street-wall buildings:



These would be easy to change to a street-wall type: 




These would be more difficult to create a street-wall from:









This map provided by the Tower Renewal Partnership shows Mississaugas existing Modern era towers in the context of its growth center. 





Current plans for Hurontario call for street-wall building types on both sides of the street. Tower sites, which would difficult to transfor would interrupt such plans.



                



This maps shoows the object-like tower buildings that would interrupt an otherwise continuous street wall on Hurontario.