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On the right track: Renowed architect Ralph Erskine of Sweden says Toronto's downtown and waterfront areas will undergo an exciting transformation by the year 2001. Where railways now divide city dwellers from the lake. Erskine sees gardens, housing, shops and theatres springing up over the next 20 years - adding new life to the city. But he wants that Metro's highrise suburbs could become ghettos.
On the right track: Renowed architect Ralph Erskine of Sweden says Toronto's downtown and waterfront areas will undergo an exciting transformation by the year 2001. Where railways now divide city dwellers from the lake. Erskine sees gardens, housing, shops and theatres springing up over the next 20 years - adding new life to the city. But he wants that Metro's highrise suburbs could become ghettos.

On the right track: Renowed architect Ralph Erskine of Sweden says Toronto's downtown and waterfront areas will undergo an exciting transformation by the year 2001. Where railways now divide city dwellers from the lake. Erskine sees gardens, housing, shops and theatres springing up over the next 20 years - adding new life to the city. But he wants that Metro's highrise suburbs could become ghettos.

Date11/4/1981
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On the right track: Swedish architect Ralph Erskine says Toronto's downtown and waterfront areas will undergo an exciting transformation by the year 2001.
On the right track: Swedish architect Ralph Erskine says Toronto's downtown and waterfront areas will undergo an exciting transformation by the year 2001.
11/5/1981
Chicago cabby Leroy Beauregard inspects Negro ghetto's Wall of Respect, painted by neighborhood art students last year in the city's south side
Chicago cabby Leroy Beauregard inspects Negro ghetto's Wall of Respect, painted by neighborhood art students last year in the city's south side
3/26/1968
Photograph of a high rise apartment building with tree in front (black and white).
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1984
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4/1/1968
Key Issue. Not against subsidized housing but wants to avoid low-income ghettos. Mario Sergio. 51 Insurance agent
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3/17/1985
Michael Scheinert, executive director of the Co-Ordinated Services to Jewish Ederly, predicts vast senior citizen ghettos that will turn to slums
Michael Scheinert, executive director of the Co-Ordinated Services to Jewish Ederly, predicts vast senior citizen ghettos that will turn to slums
5/27/1977
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8/7/1971
City dwellers
City dwellers
6/22/1983
This is plain looting of a farm cache of potatoes by city dwellers who have pushed their small carts out into the country to see what they can discove(...)
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8/11/1945
Time to relax: A stroll along the boardwalk in the Toronto Beaches is an obvious pleasure for city dwellers
Time to relax: A stroll along the boardwalk in the Toronto Beaches is an obvious pleasure for city dwellers
5/14/1989
Can transportation policy affect the city dweller's mode of travel? Yes, according to a report by the Bureau of Municipal Research discussed in today'(...)
Can transportation policy affect the city dweller's mode of travel? Yes, according to a report by the Bureau of Municipal Research discussed in today'(...)
1/21/1971
Picture of crowded beach.
Toronto Island beaches packed with city dwellers escaping heat
24 July 1961