The Global City · event 4 of 13

1971

The Spadina Expressway is stopped. After a campaign including Jane Jacobs, who had moved to Toronto from New York, the province cancels an expressway that would have been driven through the city centre.

The The Global City era

  1. 1954
  2. 1967
  3. 1971
  4. 1971
  5. 1973
  6. 1976
  7. 1989
  8. 1998
  9. 2003
  10. 2007
  11. 2010
  12. 2015
  13. 2023

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