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Allen Road, formally known as William R. Allen Road, is a short municipal expressway and arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It starts as a controlled-access expressway at Eglinton Avenue West,
Allen Road, looking north from Glencairn Avenue
Tongue-in-cheek TTC ad, partly vandalized, on a southbound overpass before Eglinton where traffic is usually backed up, that reads "Take the car they said. It'll be faster they said. Next time take the TTC."
The Globe and Mail announces the cancellation of the Spadina Expressway, effectively the end of expressway construction in Toronto.
A trailblazer to Allen Road.
Jane Jacobs
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Jane Isabel Jacobs was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities argu
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…The group was a coalition of students, academics, politicians, ratepayer groups and business people. Notable among the opposition was urban theorist Jane Jacobs, who moved to the Annex in 1969, fresh from a battle to stop the Lower Manhattan Expressway in New York City. Marshall McLuhan, too, was opposed to the…
Jacobs as chair of a Greenwich Village civic group at a 1961 press conference
Cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jacobs fought to prevent Washington Square Park, pictured, from being demolished for a highway
Jacobs lived at 69 Albany Avenue (white porch) in Toronto's Annex for 35 years