Michael Panacci
New Opportunities Toronto is now the North American market with the most new condominiums and as such has a tremendous opportunity to test new territories in collective urban dwelling. Rather than promoting and encouraging the individual capsule through marketing there is an opportunity to discuss and think about the new collective spaces and forms of collective ownership that we are creating. Whether this is through the hybridisation of programming which encourages a diversity of user-types and opens the collective spaces of the building up to new publics, or through the creation of interior vertical urban networks which take advantage of the new forms that high-rise condominiums are taking, or by optimising site
adjacencies and creating new interior networks – by re-imagining collective dwelling, perhaps the illusion created by marketing can be erased in favour of truly original living options. g 1 Sorkin, Michael. Variations on a Theme Park: the new American city and the end of public space. New York: Hill And Wang, 1992. pp xiv-xv 2 For more information see Wong,Tony.‘Toronto streets to be living movie set’ Toronto Star, 14 November 2010. 3 Cauter, de Lieven. The Capsular Civilization: on the city in the age of fear. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2004. p 77 4 ibid. p 81 5 ibid. p 66 6 Maich, Steve, and Lianne George. The Ego Boom: why the world really does revolve around you .Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2009. p 121
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