GEO 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: One King Street West, Distillery District

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 151
• Professor: Steven Swales

Document Summary

Then shifted to where it is now. A lot of demand for downtown toronto. Buildings with history heritage cannot be demolished. So new buildings have to build around it: or they move the heritage building. Some new buildings will re-develop and have parts of the old heritage building into it. 1 king west: old building that used to be a bank. Now its still a bank but with a hotel upstairs footprint of building the piece that sits on the ground. How much the building occupies the ground. Downtown buildings have small footprints: cause downtown is expensive small footprints, developed vertically, upwards, this is expensive. More expensive than a large flat building economic. More valuable the smaller the footprint the higher the buildings in order to make more return on the expensive land less valuable land have bigger footprints (cid:1) (cid:1) influences to location.