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Globe & Mail looks at the "greening" of Canada's largest cities; municipal governments across the country continue to take bold steps to create cleaner more sustainable urban environments. In Toronto this has meant, among other initiatives, an increase in green architecture and more downtown bike lanes.
"Concerns about the environment have topped opinion polls for the last five to 10 years, says Pascoal Gomes, a spokesman for Montreal's Urban Ecology Centre."
"But in ever-increasing numbers, people � and cities � are acting on those concerns."
"I think people are waking up to the fact that while we might still be OK, our children and grandchildren might not be," said Beate Bowron, a consultant with the Canadian Institute of Planners."
"...Some buildings in Toronto are being built without any parking whatsoever. There's a building on University Avenue, a condo development, that's being built with no parking. That's fairly radical," she said."
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