![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/853e7b296396153c0756f64f452e4c23c805242e51d0a80ff67bd6c2f22b76a5/Sub-Center-skhyline.png)
Downtown centers are currently where many cities in North America focus density and new building.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/366a7408caa8a2374082053fe5d577ad8ad282f962c2dfbd672d09686ca8d667/Sub-Center-TO6.png)
These two maps show the toronto areas’s growth centers, zones that cities have designated for new density linked by higher order transit like subways.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e74dd37b73c2fcc93839601ec1025cafcf52bbb3e43e86f558c879b6cb918bd/Sub-Center-TO7.png)
This map shows distributed density through a series of secondary hub, or subhubs...
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a650354faf4c4180296e2c37a5db12f2091c1fe28bd90f8fe887d9e8d6ee2fd2/Sub-Center-TO8.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52475e3ecb7953f850e319c4c7a07a958365915516fbec348950b25a5127415d/Sub-Center-TO2.png)
...located at building clusters that have a mix of modern era apartment towers, strip malls and schools.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcbdb42430f09800807c87a6dfe36596ee42d9ee09aa4e9ce0d6ab8a6313b709/Sub-Center-TO3.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85ebdf77dba476dbf335c418173f86c6a1784dec2612c9dec16978491a6d404d/Sub-Center-TO5.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5a3cdc054c58646a364bbfe6607b9cbf987471cb650d89c94b735c3bf5ecb23/Sub-Center-TO9.png)
All modern era apartment towers in Toronto (data courtesy of the Tower Renewal Partnership).
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/171aba556ba09f8a60e8e997be91d8318bf6b3a48d4a7c401704ae4cc43a8342/Sub-Center-TO10.png)
Apartment towers adjacent to schools and strip malls.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f428bd6de86e537b3c188d7da885ad90d3e33aa651506e0a4b6fa88e42eec994/Sub-Center-TO11.png)
1 km radius around the clusters.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/469875acd1c13e036d18e76a8c996af7658595418463ba9dc37be8ed00095875/Sub-Center-TO12.png)
Growth centers and second centers.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80bf4cbb70f864d3aa6f690f2b4720a72645915fc41c11f3c21ebf456131c16a/Sub-Center-TO13.png)
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