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This Highway Almost Destroyed Toronto
In the 1950s Toronto wanted to build a network of “superhighways” all across the city. Part of this was the Spadina Expressway, which became one of the most controversial projects the the city's history. But most of this wasn’t built, and today, the city center is relatively free of highways, especially when compared to other major cities in North America.
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➜ References & Further Reading:
The Expressways of Toronto
transittoronto.ca/spare/0019.shtml
The Spadina Expressway Controversy
www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/chr.92.2.295?journalCode=chr
Challenging the Spadina Expressway through the Ontario Municipal Board
www.erudit.org/en/journals/uhr/2011-v39-n2-uhr1521619/1003460ar/
The bad trip : the untold story of the Spadina Expressway
archive.org/details/badtripuntoldsto0000nowl/page/4/mode/2up
Segregation By Design
www.segregationbydesign.com/
Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html
North Houston Highway Improvement Project
mycity.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=15e9cd4512944ddb9b8f6b23fa9a68c6
Houston commute times quickly increasing
www.click2houston.com/news/2014/02/04/houston-commute-times-quickly-increasing/
Allen Road & Lawrence Heights
thelocal.to/where-the-spadina-expressway-didnt-stop/
Lawrence Heights Revitalization
urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/lawrence-heights-revitalization.7501
Allen Road Individual Environmental Assessment
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/pw/bgrd/backgroundfile-93979.pdf
➜ Timestamps:
0:00 Highways In Toronto
1:04 Spadina Expressway Controversy
1:57 The Annex
3:07 Highways of Segregation
4:09 Aftermath
5:00 Highway Median Transit
6:43 Divided Neighborhoods
8:01 Urban Feeways Were a Mistake
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Komentáře

  • @5studios1room
    @5studios1room Před hodinou

    It’s all about money.

  • @annieboookhall
    @annieboookhall Před 3 hodinami

    And this is why I'm finding out more and more I enjoy college towns, which is rather a sad notion coming from someone who is more reserved and over the age of 18

  • @animo4263
    @animo4263 Před 6 hodinami

    ɐᴉʅɐɹʇsnⱯ ʻǝuɹnoqʅǝW

  • @carolboehringer7823
    @carolboehringer7823 Před 7 hodinami

    Wow I agree 100% I’m a immigrant German descent. Fords an idiot Trudeau well we all know where those carbon tax dollars go. I can only say one thing Look at the other side of the planet. Electric high speed highly efficient public transport. What the heck are we doing. Highways stink! My house sits next to a highway. Diesel is poisoning us! So many people support it! Trains stink! There noisy! Maybe one day people will vote in the right party !!!!!!

  • @8293nokinho
    @8293nokinho Před 10 hodinami

    It's not kid's fault, modern technology and online connections changed everything, even adults don't hang out like they used to.

  • @londondave800
    @londondave800 Před 11 hodinami

    Ugly cities in an ugly country. It goes hand in hand.

  • @aryan___9580
    @aryan___9580 Před 11 hodinami

    Dude u looks like william afton😅😂 ❤❤❤❤

  • @charleslowry2513
    @charleslowry2513 Před 13 hodinami

    Bad faith arguement. Not against more walkable cities but living in the suburbs is not the reason kids don't go outside to play.

  • @Itzlegs
    @Itzlegs Před 14 hodinami

    What our national debt again?

  • @theultimatereductionist7592
    @theultimatereductionist7592 Před 17 hodinami

    "It's unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people" Yes! THIS! Urbanists need to emphasize THIS! Not whine about Americans preferring low density or not giving a shit about beauty or culture. Emphasize JUSTICE= FAIRNESS.

  • @theultimatereductionist7592
    @theultimatereductionist7592 Před 17 hodinami

    ​ @CrAzYnAdEz "Not too mention trucking and transportation is one of the biggest industries in the U.S. and there will be a huge backlash" Well tough shit. Nobody "owes" anybody the status quo. There is a huge backlash right now against lack of jobs in green energy and transportation. Secondly, no: there wouldn't be. Truckers are already overworked. And the rate of them retiring is greater tahn the rate of new truck drivers being trained. So truckers will be happy to have less work put upon them. "Just because somebody doesn't want to give up a job" is NOT an argument against a superior technology.

  • @theultimatereductionist7592
    @theultimatereductionist7592 Před 17 hodinami

    ​ @ivanrodriguez268 "When I lived in a tight city I didnt talk to any neighbors and everyone was just angry and pushing each other away." Agreed. I would NOT want to live tightly with others. Anyone who claims to should live in a PRISON: there: they would get MAXIMUM density. I have LOVED the LOW DENSITY I have lived my entire 60 years, in essentially two different single-family houses. However, that comfort, luxury, forces a massive cost NOT ONLY on myself BUT ONTO OTHERS: starting with Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).

  • @theultimatereductionist7592
    @theultimatereductionist7592 Před 17 hodinami

    To rustydiamonds: Laws and corporations ARE PART of culture. Culture = ALL THE BAD stuff, too. NOT just the "fun entertaining" stuff.

  • @theultimatereductionist7592
    @theultimatereductionist7592 Před 17 hodinami

    Channels like these would get a LOT more support if you would stop conflating the UNNECESSARY & SUBJECTIVE issue of BEAUTY with the VERY IMPORTANT QUANTIFIABLY REAL injustice of bulldozing towns, especially primarily poor & black people's homes, for parking lots & stroads & highways & car centric extremism. We SHOULD fight the latter, with guns, if necessary. But, beauty is subjective and a waste of energy and time.

  • @L_H_Bruh
    @L_H_Bruh Před 17 hodinami

    The lack of trees and vegetation makes it feel artificial... which is strange to say about an existing space, usually you call food or other products artificial, but never to an actual physical location... and every house looks the same too. Just looking at a picture of american suburbs just drains me of energy while making me anxious at the same time

  • @lastswordfighter
    @lastswordfighter Před 17 hodinami

    Liberal: Waaah car bad. Waah private property bad. Waah suburb bad.

  • @Allsmilessmith
    @Allsmilessmith Před 17 hodinami

    This must be ai 🤖 yo

  • @toniderdon
    @toniderdon Před 19 hodinami

    Putting Melbourne, Australia upside down was funny

  • @WokerThanThou
    @WokerThanThou Před 22 hodinami

    The comment section is rife with elitists touting the benefits of their central planning families managing everyone's capital.

  • @TOMMY-WANT-WINGY
    @TOMMY-WANT-WINGY Před 23 hodinami

    The walkable places near me are over run with hostile baboons.

  • @internationala.c.8614

    Suburbs and cars are the reason USA is a great country. Fuck living in a cramped apt next to a lousy street.

  • @Magic_dawn
    @Magic_dawn Před dnem

    But hey atleast we have instagram and twitter

  • @Makinri
    @Makinri Před dnem

    0:11 And yet they still give them an Ipad with unrestricted internet access at age 4.

  • @ninedragons1
    @ninedragons1 Před dnem

    Sorry buddy, but I love the suburb. Best decision I ever made moving out of crime ridden city of weirdos. Something about people living on top of each other that makes everyone crazy and ignore the crime around them. Never going back to San Francisco. Not even to visit.

  • @reliefmango6
    @reliefmango6 Před dnem

    Child neglect is a crime? 😮

  • @dwaynemcdowell2073

    So glad you did a video on this subject! I lived in NYC for most of my adult life then returned to suburbia and realized it’s so culturally sterile and lacking in engagement that life had become about surviving than living.

  • @Josephlopez724
    @Josephlopez724 Před dnem

    And its only gonna get worse

  • @mazimadu
    @mazimadu Před dnem

    Why is every channel complaining about suburbia from canada?

  • @antuanperez426
    @antuanperez426 Před dnem

    🤡🤣

  • @oceanlagoon7733
    @oceanlagoon7733 Před dnem

    It just looks like the setting of Poltergeist or ET.

  • @glowboy6098
    @glowboy6098 Před dnem

    I’m glad that our generation is starting to realize the mistakes of the previous one. I really really hope that one day we can do better and change things

  • @nexx410
    @nexx410 Před dnem

    Great subject but you overstretched it a bit.

  • @GirlyMe-jm9mn
    @GirlyMe-jm9mn Před dnem

    but can i be real with you... those "experiments" were my childhood and those homes. copy pasted or not will always stay in my memory as the best time in my childhood. they arent all the same though. they all had their own thing to them. it wasnt like these homes were really built to all be the same. i think i was in the second era.

  • @AK-ct9pd
    @AK-ct9pd Před dnem

    Southdale is still a dissapointment today

  • @rickysampson8759
    @rickysampson8759 Před dnem

    You know what else is creepy? Monogamy

  • @tdg276
    @tdg276 Před dnem

    The picture in the thumbnail is slightly different than what you talked about. The thumbnail is a picture of beautiful Breezewood Pennsylvania. It was billed as a small area to get off of the PA Turnpike and other highways to get some food and gas, but as the years went by, it turned into more than that. there’s also abandoned sections of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in this town. whenever I am traveling all the way through Pennsylvania we always stop there to get gas so I’ve been there a couple of times. It’s a magical site.

  • @lia.e.9749
    @lia.e.9749 Před dnem

    The lack of SAFETY is a problem

  • @tictactoehuhn6
    @tictactoehuhn6 Před dnem

    Love the fallen angels soundtrack ❤

  • @tttdrr2293
    @tttdrr2293 Před dnem

    Look up the town King Charles help built, functional, acetic, a real jewel.

  • @cdnhacker1906
    @cdnhacker1906 Před dnem

    YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND LIKE IT... YOU WILL LIVE THE WAY WE TELL YOU SO WE CAN PROFIT. Western Philosophy. Humanity? wtf is that???

    • @cdnhacker1906
      @cdnhacker1906 Před dnem

      Don't get me started on having a Garden. YOU WILL DESTROY THE PROFITS IF YOU"RE SELF RELIANT.

  • @lephtovermeet
    @lephtovermeet Před dnem

    Every city built after about 1950 is absolute trash.

  • @MrVampira1
    @MrVampira1 Před dnem

    Yeah, but places that are walkable are very expensive to live in and people have to buy very small densely packed units and most Americans want space to have a garden and a barbecue, etc.

  • @Ivy32188
    @Ivy32188 Před dnem

    That’s how downtown sf feels

  • @Assadul-Naml
    @Assadul-Naml Před dnem

    Epcot looks super dystopian. Yucks

  • @ZiggyZou
    @ZiggyZou Před dnem

    I’ve lived in rural America, cities and suburbs. Suburbs are by far the best.

  • @Keepmywifesnameoutyafucknmouth

    Bro I need to feel you inside of me right? 😅

  • @thornarcher849
    @thornarcher849 Před dnem

    To me the word pedestrian always sounded like pederast tbh

  • @brianc9374
    @brianc9374 Před dnem

    Ive lived in cities, suburbs and country. Suburbs are best

  • @SpencerKlouds
    @SpencerKlouds Před dnem

    Is McBling and Bimbocore different or they're the same?

  • @olisonline
    @olisonline Před dnem

    Vsauce music