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Understanding the city in

four dimensions:

Urban Space + Time

Crawford & Dundas today

Crawford Street Bridge

Some of the story

Portions of the
bridge were then
filled in, here with
excavation from
the subway in the
1960s

Elizabeth Street today

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Arthur Goss, official city photographer slum conditions at 96 Elizabeth

Elizabeth & Edward

Altmans Caf (later a `chop


house)

Altmans was a
place to go for a
snack after a
show at the
Lyric Theatre, a
former
Methodist
Church at
Teraulay and
Agnes
(Bay/Dundas)
Stars of
David, Hye
Bossin, 1957.

Approximate location

Elizabeth south of Dundas


(1930s)

Elizabeth & Foster Place

Slum kids

Elizabeth Street Playground

Elizabeth Street WWII

Clearance (`Parkinglotization)

Civic square competition

1960s and 1970s: a zone of


transition

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