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Downtown Toronto will change its way if a proposal made by city planners last night takes effect, They would create 30,000 housing units in the centra(...)
Downtown Toronto will change its way if a proposal made by city planners last night takes effect, They would create 30,000 housing units in the centra(...)

Downtown Toronto will change its way if a proposal made by city planners last night takes effect, They would create 30,000 housing units in the centra(...)

Date8/11/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Downtown Toronto will change its way if a proposal made by city planners last night takes effect; They would create 30;000 housing units in the central core; and limit buildings in the financial area to one-third of present heights unless houses in included in them.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0108913F
The future of Toronto's core with its skyscrapers and distinctive city hall (centre) hinges on the fate of the city' downtown plan
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5/3/1966
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12/3/1965
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Housing development site
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Foreground shows aerial view of housing development with uniformly spaced homes on flat, treele ...
New defense housing area, Delsay Park, for Avro workers
1953-06
One of most important changes for Toronto, seen here from the top of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, came on Jan
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Big Chartered Banks represent one concentration of economic power and royal commission hasn't sorted out its approach to them yet. Concentration talle(...)
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