Lower Don Lands Redevelopment Urban Toronto
This definition is accurate, more often than not, but looking at the redevelopment of the Lower Don Lands, the project has put a remarkably eco-conscious spin on the idea of terraforming, dramatically altering the landscape to restore the natural flow of the Don River.
Lower Don Lands Redevelopment UrbanToronto
RIVER+CITY+LIFE: A Guide to Renewing Toronto's Lower Don Lands. Hector Burga. December 2008. Download this article as a PDF. This article was originally published in a print issue of Places Journal: Volume 20, Issue 3. The entire print archive (1983-2009) is available in PDF format.
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The Lower Don Lands - a 125 hectare (308 acre) area that runs from the Parliament Street Slip east to the Don Roadway and from the rail corridor south to the Ship Channel - is Waterfront Toronto's most complex and ambitious project to date.
Lower Don Lands Redevelopment UrbanToronto
Lower Don Lands, Toronto, Ontario. In contrast, New Urbanism โ which has impressively gained a strong foothold among planners and urbanists in the past three decades โ has lost its freshness and also its ability to deal with the complexities I just cited. It tends to be more prescriptive in its design language โ harkening back to past.
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The Lower Don Lands, which includes the Keating Channel and Villiers Island neighbourhoods, is one of the founding projects of the C40-Climate Positive Development Program. This program supports projects that seek to meet a "climate positive" emissions target of net-negative operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Designing the Lower Don Lands
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Wandering Ecologies establishes a new identity for Toronto, where recreational, living, and cultural activities are free to wander and overlap, creating a new model for sustainable waterfront expansion on the eastern edge of the city.Organized around the newly designed meandering Lower Don River, the naturalized river creates wetlands and habita.
Wandering Ecologies Toronto Lower Don Lands Projects Weiss/Manfredi
The Lower Don Lands proposal is the product of an invitational, international design competition whose purpose was to re-imagine a 300-acre waterfront parcel characterized by a tangle of transportation infrastructure, a channelized and deadened river, and large territories of underutilized brownfields and former industrial portlands.
Lower Don Lands Precinct Plan ยซ Gladki Planning Associates
The Lower Don Lands is a 125 hectare waterfront site that presents a unique opportunity for revitalization in the City of Toronto. Once part of a massive wetland supporting a vast range of plants, fish, waterfowl, and mammals, the area was lake-filled to support industry and today sits largely abandoned. Now, with a progressive strategy to re.
Lower Don Lands Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
RIVER+CITY+LIFE: A Guide to Renewing Toronto's Lower Don Lands Stoss Landscape Urbanism Cities have been rediscovering their waterfronts for several decades, using reinvestment to proclaim their heritage and to redefine their civic identity.
Lower Don Lands, Toronto, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc
Lower Don Lands Framework Plan Completed in 2010, the Lower Don Lands Framework Plan is the basis for the development of 280 acres of Toronto's post-industrial waterfront. Its size, scope, and complexity make it unique worldwide among a growing set of plans to reintegrate post-industrial landscapes with urban and natural systems.
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An Island on the Land . By Carey McWilliams (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946;. garden, lovely Ramona and brave Alessandro fleeing through the foothills of Mt. San Jacinto, and the Old Spanish Don sunning himself in the courtyard of his rancho.. the Indian sank lower and lower in the social hierarchy of the times. After the American.
Lower Don Lands Waterfront Toronto
The Keating Channel Precinct will be the first neighborhood of Toronto's Lower Don Lands. The Precinct will stitch together the city fabric around the northeast corner of the Toronto Inner Harbor.
Lower Don Lands by Waning Crescent Moon UrbanToronto
The Port Lands, or Lower Don Lands, is a 125 hectare (308 acre) area that runs from East Bayfront (the Parliament Street Slip) east to the Don Roadway and from West Don Lands (the rail corridor) south to the Ship Channel. Waterfront Toronto plans to transform the largely underutilized industrial area into new sustainable parks and communities.
Lower Don Lands Toronto ยซ Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
The MVVA team's winning response to the Lower Don Lands competition of 2007 proposed a new future for this vast, flood-prone area covering 330 acres. The proposal envisioned a dramatic repositioning of hydrological, landscape, and transportation systems to enable smart, climate-adapted growth.
Wandering Ecologies Toronto Lower Don Lands Architizer
Urban life and nature are reciprocal conditions that together can transform Toronto's Lower Don Lands into a new cultural and ecological paradigm. Wandering Ecologies establishes a new identity for Toronto, where recreational, living, and cultural activities are free to wander and overlap, creating a new model for sustainable waterfront.
Wandering Ecologies Toronto Lower Don Lands Projects Weiss/Manfredi
The Lower Don Lands will be transformed into a sustainable "green" city, a new destination where city, lake, and river interact in a dynamic and balanced relationship - an urban estuary. By moving the river's mouth from the Keating Channel to Lake Ontario, the scheme reasserts the rivers presence in the city and makes the river an iconic.