Exploring Toronto: A Guide to 28 Unique Public Spaces - Hardcover

Greenberg, Ken; Greenberg, Eti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1459752554 ISBN 13: 9781459752559

Verlag: Dundurn Group Ltd, 2023

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A full-colour guide to dozens of unique outdoor spaces that highlight Toronto as a sustainable, liveable city.

Toronto is rich in public spaces — deeply incised ravines, lively neighbourhoods, lush gardens and parks, iconic bridges, even repurposed industrial silos and undercrofts of elevated highways. Urban aficionados Ken and Eti Greenberg have combed the city on foot and by tandem bike discovering some of Toronto’s best outdoor public spaces.

In Exploring Toronto, they have gathered twenty-eight of their favourite spots, each offering something unique — a flash of ingenious design, a surprise vantage point, or simply relief from the hum of traffic. Ken and Eti bring their distinctive perspective, informed by years of work in urban design, to each of their choices, providing readers (and explorers) with the full story of the history, design, and appeal of each one-of-a-kind place.

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Ken Greenberg is an urban designer, teacher, writer, former director of urban design and architecture for the City of Toronto and principal of Greenberg Consultants. He is the author of Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder and Toronto Reborn: Design Successes and Challenges. He was selected as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2019 and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Toronto.
Eti Greenberg has managed Toronto’s Euclid Cinema, acted as an art dealer, worked for two Toronto city councillors, teaches Tai Chi, and is a shiatsu and acupuncture therapist. She is passionate about Toronto and walks everywhere and also discovers new places via tandem bike and kayak.

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CANADA MALTING SILOS

New life for a historic landmark on Toronto Harbour

Two monumental silos book end Toronto Harbour: the Canada Malting silos at the foot of Bathurst Street and the Victory Soya Mills silos at the foot of Parliament Street. Given their scale and prominence, this pair have vital new roles to play in a revitalized waterfront. Every time we walk along the water by the Music Garden, we try to imagine what the future use of the Canada Malting silos might be.

The Canada Malting silos, built in 1928 at the height of Toronto’s early twentieth-century industrial expansion, were abandoned in the 1980s. They have somehow survived, legacies of a past of which few other traces remain. Over the years, there have been numerous plans for their adaptive reuse, but there were difficulties: deterioration of the structures, finding the right combination of uses, and arranging financing. The timing for repurposing them may now be right.

Their heritage status has been acknowledged, and a program of rehabilitation began in late spring 2021. There is enormous potential for public use.

There are two distinct parts to the Canada Malting silos. The central opening between them is being opened up as a gateway to the water’s edge. The night lighting of the silos will give Toronto a gleaming, glowing western bookend for the harbour. When the structural rehab on the silos is finished, the fences will come down and a great new park will be created around the base. This is part of the larger Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood Plan, approved in 2017, which aims to improve the surrounding unused city-owned property with new public spaces, including a promenade connection to Ireland Park. There is a plan to eventually turn the silos into a cultural and community services hub and destination on the harbour. OCAD University has already been engaged with plans to use the silos to facilitate critical dialogues on climate resilience through the lens of art and design and will include activities such as public arts programming, exhibitions, installations, and symposiums, done in collaboration with Indigenous, local, national, and international partners.

The start of refurbishment of these long-neglected structures is a hopeful sign of renewal connecting past, present, and future. It is encouraging to see that similar plans are being developed for the Victory Soya Mills silos at the other end of the harbour. The pieces are falling into place to reconnect the waterfront from the central harbour to Port Lands and the new mouth of the Don River.

GETTING THERE
Address: 9 Eireann Quay, Toronto,
TTC: The Canada Malting Silos are a short walk from the stops along the Queens Quay LRT line, which runs from Union Station.
CYCLING: The Martin Goodman Trail on the waterfront passes right by.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dundurn Group Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1459752554
• ISBN 13: 9781459752559
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
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