Take a walk through Toronto’s financial district and you probably won’t realise that you stand atop the largest underground shopping complex in the world. The Path is a labyrinth comprising 30km of networked passageways and 75 connected buildings. The morning rush hour introduces a crush of unidirectional movement from Union Station to the financial district; the workday’s end reverses this. In 1929, a tunnel connected Union Station and the newly-built Royal York Hotel. Lawson foresaw overcrowded sidewalks, as the newly growing financial district increasingly privileged massive lobbies over street-level retail.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2019 13:49 UTC