The North Greater Toronto Area (North GTA) is the seventh region Metroscapes has expanded to. When Metroscapes became a multi-city project in 2019, it opened my eyes to how much shifting a couple hundred kilometres and growing a few decades later can really change the landscape. This motivated me to keep expanding, and in 2024, I went from 4 isolated cities to the entire Toronto metro area.

The North GTA consists of the urban areas of York Region: Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Marhham, Aurora, Newmarket, East Gwillimbury, and the communities of Stouffville, Nobleton, King City and Bradford. While York Region spreads over an area of 175,000 hectares, the total area of analysis cuts out 100,000 hectares of rural area, still leaving it a bit bigger than Toronto. One defining feature is its status as a split between the Lake Ontario and Simcoe, with the headwaters of major rivers flowing south through Toronto, and most of the rest going into the Holland River. Highway 407, as well as adjacent east-west utility and railway corridors form a southerly foundation, with other corridors heading north-south towards northcentral Ontario.

Explore projects in the North GTA below.