ABSTRACT
The Evolution of Toronto LBT US study the way in which a large city, such as Toronto, has evolved in about 150 years. Its topography is shown in Fig. 28; while the main stages of development are shown in Fig. 27, where only the salient characteristics are charted. In a large city we need to know the position of the commercial core, the industrial areas, and the general characters of the residential quarters. The latter may be fourth class (Hd), small inconvenient (or decayed) houses without gardens; third class (He), better houses but still without much space or convenience; second class (Hb), modern two-or three-storey brick houses with fair gardens; or lastly first class (Ha) with rather large gardens for a town, and of the type that at times might be called mansions. These types of residences are numbered 4, 3, 2, and 1 in the maps for 1885 and 1940 in Fig. 27.
