Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City that Might Have Been
Oct 2008 · The City That Might Have Been Book 1 · Dundurn
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Unbuilt Toronto explores never-realized building projects in and around Toronto, from the city's founding to the twenty-first century. Delving into unfulfilled and largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, highways, subways, and arts and recreation venues, it outlines such ambitious schemes as St. Alban's Cathedral, the Queen subway line and early city plans that would have resulted in a Paris-by-the-Lake.
Readers may lament the loss of some projects (such as the Eaton's College Street tower), be thankful for the disappearance of others (a highway through the Annex), and marvel at the downtown that could have been (with underground roads and walkways in the sky).
Featuring 147 photographs and illustrations, many never before published, Unbuilt Toronto casts a different light on a city you thought you knew.
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Dr. Emily Spencer is an assistant professor at the University of Northern British Columbia and a reserach associate with the Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. She was the general editor of The Difficult War: Perspectives on Insurgency and Special Operations Forces. She lives in Prince George, British Columbia.
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