The Globe and Mail compares Los Angeles and Toronto and asks how large a city can get before it starts to fall apart. Does LA's secession foreshadow things to come?
"The San Fernando Valley, home to 40% of Los Angeles's population, has long complained about municipal neglect. This Tuesday, they vote on whether to separate from sprawling L.A. As Jane Armstrong reports, the rally in the Valley may foreshadow fights to come in many supersized Canadian cities, including Toronto and Montreal. How large can a city get and still survive?.. In California, Valley secessionists say their movement was spawned by a grassroots desire for a more hands-on municipal government. Those complaints resonate in Toronto. Five years after a bitterly fought battle over forced amalgamation, many residents of the Ontario capital say they have never felt so cut off or estranged from local government." [Link updated.]
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