Toronto

Building Height Profiles

Building heights by distance from city centre.

Jens von Bergmann

2 minute read

Jim has been using the Copernicus building height data for select European cities to understand the height profiles of cities. Building heights by distance from city centre in London and Paris, from 2012 EU Copernicus data. On average, buildings in Paris are taller throughout. pic.twitter.com/rtGiiBC7pd — Jim Gleeson (@geographyjim) May 11, 2018 We thought these were pretty cool. Sadly we don’t have a dataset like this for Canadian metro areas, but we can hack together something similar using LIDAR survey data.

Renting in Toronto

How much space to you get for $1500 in Toronto.

Jens von Bergmann

2 minute read

Earlier today I came across Gil Meslin’s tweet suggesting to reproduce this rent graph for neighbourhoods in Toronto. I agree that this would be fun to do. All it requires is mixing the Toronto neighbourhoods with renal listings data, which I happen to have handy. So time to get working. Neighbourhoods To do this we need to grab the Toronto neighbourhoods which can be found on Toronto’s open data website.