Landmark
The Annex
The Annex, Toronto, ON
Victorian mansion district turned student quarter, saved from a highway by a grassroots revolt.
This guide to The Annex in Toronto follows Jane Jacobs, fresh off beating a highway plan in Greenwich Village, as she settles into this district of turreted Victorian mansions in 1969, only to find a six-lane expressway already being planned straight through it. It traces the neighborhood's 1886 origins as a subdivision for Toronto's wealthy, and the public hearings Jacobs turned into a fight over who the city was for.
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