Exploring Toronto

A Guide to 28 Unique Public Spaces

Ken Greenberg, Eti Greenberg (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2023
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-5255-9 (ISBN)

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Celebrate the livable city with this guidebook to Toronto’s outdoor public spaces. Written by urban designer Ken Greenberg and city advocate Eti Greenberg, discover the urban beauty of silos, lush parks, underpasses, and ravines and be guided by colour photographs and maps.

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.

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.

Foreword
Toronto: Walking The City
Toronto Island
Toronto Music Garden
Sugar Beach
Canada Malting Silos
Trillium Park
The Bentway
Canoe Landing At City Place
Puente De Luz (The “Yellow Bridge”)
Victoria Memorial Square
Berczy Park
Regent Park
Rush Lane (Aka “Graffiti Alley”)
Grange Park
Kensington Market
Front Yard Stories
The Belt Line
West Don Lands
Port Lands Bridges
The Don Valley
Trinity Bellwoods Park
Roncesvalles (Aka “Roncy”)
High Park
Humber Bay Shores Park
Humber Bay Pedestrian And Cycle Bridge
Old Mill Bridge
Leslie Street Spit
The Beach
The Guild Of All The Arts (Clarke Centre For The Arts)

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2023
Vorwort	Amanda O'Rourke
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps; 28 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 127 mm
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► Kanada
ISBN-10	1-4597-5255-4 / 1459752554
ISBN-13	978-1-4597-5255-9 / 9781459752559
Zustand	Neuware