"March 2011."

Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45).

Executive summary -- Summary of recommendations -- Business competitiveness in the GTA, five years on -- Changes and trends since 2005 -- The difference between intensified office employment and other forms of employment -- City of Toronto: little progress on the agenda for prosperity -- The city of Toronto's dependence on the financial services sector -- Tax differentials still create inequities, but change is slow and difficult to achieve -- Congestion is currently the biggest threat to competitiveness -- The transfer of risk from entrepreneurs to institutional developers affects development decisions -- Amenities that attract and retain talent are unevenly distributed in the region -- Demand for "green" development is growing -- Other developments since 2005 -- Change in the geography of offices since the 1950s -- Pre-1950 distribution -- 1950-1980 -- 1980s-1990s -- 2000-2010 -- Realty taxes: a situation largely at a standstill -- Ontario's 2007 plan to balance business education tax -- The Toronto-regional tax imbalance -- Rebalancing the commercial-residential tax burden -- Caps and clawbacks in the commerial sector -- The consequences of business-as-usual approaches -- The financial core -- toronto transit-oriented office clusters -- Toronto non-transit office clusters -- Suburban car-dependent office clusters -- Recommendations: supporting competitiveness in the GTA -- Works cited -- Appendix 1: large format maps.

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