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Modernist Apartment Towers Of St
James Town
Based
On Le Corbusier's "towers
In
The Park" Concept
The Postwar Years Also Saw
The Rise Of Apartment Style Housing
In
The 1960s
And 1970s
This Kind Of Housing Was Mostly Focused
On Low
To Middle Income Residents
Beginning
In
The 1950s
The City Bulldozed Older Lower Income Neighbourhoods
Replacing Them With Housing Projects
Ultimately Destroying Large Sections Of Victorian Housing
The Earliest
And Most Notorious Example Of Such Projects Was Regent Park
It Replaced
A Large Portion Of Cabbagetown With
A Series Of Low-rise
And High-rise Buildings That Quickly Became Crime-ridden
And Even More Depressed Than
The Neighbourhood
It Replaced
In Later Years
Similar Projects Such
As Moss Park
And Alexandra Park Were Less Disastrous
But Also Far From Successful
Canada's Densest Community
St
James Town
Was Built
In This Era As
A High-rise Community Of Private
And Public Housing
In Separate Towers
Also Replacing
A Victorian Neighbourhood
These Patterns Changed Dramatically Beginning
In
The 1970s
And Gentrification Began Transforming Once Poor Neighbourhoods
Such
As Cabbagetown
Into Some Of
The City's Most Popular
And Expensive Real Estate
Outside Of
The Core
Even New Neighbourhoods Experienced Significant High-rise Apartment Building Construction
As Builders Embraced
The "towers
In
The Park" Design
Invented
By Le Corbusier
The Towers Were Built Further From
The Sidewalk
Leaving Room
On
The Property Around
The Edifice
For Parking
Lawns
Trees
And Other Landscaping
They
Are Typically Simple
Brick-clad High-rise Buildings With Rectangular Footprints
And Little Ornamentation Other Than Repeating Series Of Balconies
For Each Apartment
However
Some Apartment Buildings From This Era Utilize Less Conventional Designs
In
The "tower
In
The Park" Format
Such As
The Prince Arthur Towers
Jane-Exbury Towers
And 44 Walmer Road Designed
By Uno Prii
In 1972
The Canadian Tax Code Was Radically Altered Making Rental Housing Much Less Attractive
To Investors
At
The Same Time
Deindustrialization Opened
A Number Of New Areas
To Residential Development
The New Projects Took
The Form Of Condominiums
This Form Of Housing Was Introduced
In
The Province's Condominium Act
In
The 1960s
But
It Was Not Until
The 1980s That Condos Become Very Popular
An Initial Condo Boom Started
In 1986
But
The Market Collapsed
In
The Late 1980s
And Early 1990s Recession
And Many Investors Were Badly Mauled
In 1995
Condo Prices Were Still 30% Below
The Earlier Highs. That Year
A New Boom Began
In Toronto That Has Continued
To This Day
An Unprecedented Number Of New Projects Have Been Built
In Toronto
In 2000
Condo Life Magazine Listed 152 Separate Projects Underway Within
The City Of Toronto
By 2007
The Number Of Projects
In
The GTA Had Reached 247
This Development Has Been Concentrated
In
The Downtown Core
Especially
In
The Former Industrial Areas Just Outside
The Central Business District
The Largest Such Project
Is CityPlace
A Cluster Of Condo Towers
On Former Railway Lands By
The Lake Shore
This $2 Billion Project Will Eventually Consist Of 20 Different Towers Housing Some 12,000 People. Transit-oriented Developments
Are Also Common
In Toronto
Such
As
At North York Centre
And Sheppard East Along
The Namesake Subway Line
And Sheppard West Along
The Subway Line's Future Westward Extension
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The earliest schools
in Toronto were
in private homes
often run
by members of
the clergy
Public funding
for schools began with
the establishment of
the Home District Grammar School
Notably
it was not governed
by an elected school board
Voting for
the city's first elected school board took place
in 1816 following
the passage of
the Common School Act
the board
as per
the regulations of
the act
had three members: Eli Playter
Dr
Thomas D
Morrison
and Jesse Ketchum
the board governed
the Common School
at York which was located
on
the same grounds as
the Grammar School
However
this lasted only four years before
the school
and its associated school board were shut down
in favour of
the creation of
the Central School which was placed under
the control of an unelected board
and marked an attempt
to bring public schools under Anglican religious control. Control of this board
in Toronto was then subsumed under
a provincial Board of Education
in 1824
itself merged into
the Council of King's College
a body charged with obtaining
a university for
the province
In 1831
Upper Canada College was created
to replace
the Home District Grammar School with state funding
in
the form of an initial crown lands grant of 6,000 acres
later supplemented
by an additional 60,000 acres
in contrast
common schools
in this era
the equivalent of today's elementary schools
were woefully underfunded
Funding for
the schools was derived from
the sale of crown lands
but
the lands chosen
to support education were undesirable
and couldn't command
a high enough price
to sustain
the common schools
in addition
to undesirability
the acreage devoted
to funding
the common schools initially granted
in 1816 was later reduced
by half
These deficiencies began
to be addressed by
the School Act of 1844
and culminated
in
the creation of local public school boards across
the province including
the Toronto Public School Board
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characterized
by buildings
on small lots (frontages less than 12.5 metres (41 ft)) ranging
in height from 2
to 5 storeys
These buildings have street-related retail uses
at grade
and residential uses above
Typically
they
are built
to
the lot line
and span
the width of
the lot
These characteristics produce
the familiar retail strip
in which there is
a continuous wall of retail activity
and there is
a direct relationship between
the main entrance of
a store and
the public sidewalk
The Main Street
is
the concept of small avenues
and store frontages
on busy roads
which maintain
the vitality of communities and
the continuity of
the streetscape
Shopping centres. . ; . . .
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