ABSTRACT
In Canada, as in other advanced nations, the service sector has been a major element in the restructuring of the space economy since the mid-1960s, and nowhere has its transforming power been more evident than in the major cities. The downtowns of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, and Halifax among others, have been virtually rebuilt since 1965. At the head of the urban hierarchy, the core area of the City of Toronto added 30 million square feet of office space between 1965 and 1985. Spillovers from this transformation have impacted the old industrial zone in transition and the ring of inner city neighbourhoods, producing an urban landscape with significant departures from the patterns of the past.
