Download or read book Toronto s Ravines and Urban Forests written by Jason Ramsay-Brown and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where you are in Toronto, you are close to a ravine. In these often-hidden places you can find an astonishing diversity of birds, flowers, and trees. Jason Ramsay-Brown has spent twenty years exploring the more than one hundred ravines, parks, and urban forests within Toronto's boundaries. For this book he has selected the thirty natural areas most rewarding to visitors, and provided accounts of what you will encounter there — and what you can learn of the city's history as well. The variety of flora and fauna is astonishing. In one park alone, the Leslie Street Spit, more than three hundred species of birds have been identified since the turn of the millennium. The increasingly scarce butternut tree can be found in Warden Woods, and wildlife such as deer, beaver, foxes, and coyotes are often spotted along many ravine trails. Jason tells the story of ongoing efforts of ecological restoration and stewardship to protect these habitats and ecosystems, such as the wetlands of Taylor Creek Park and the old-growth forest within Glendon Forest. The ravines also contain many landmarks of local history: rumours of buried British gold in Scarborough's Gates Gully, large First Nations encampments near L'Amoureaux Park, and early industries like Todmorden Mills. With extensive visuals illustrating all thirty ravines and forests from across the city, this book offers something for every Torontonian and every visitor.

Download or read book Urban and Regional References 1945 1969 written by Canadian Council on Urban and Regional Research and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enhancing Urban Environment by Environmental Upgrading and Restoration written by Daniel Sztruhar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As urban areas keep growing, water infrastructure ages, and the requirements on environmental protection become more rigorous, there is a continual need for upgrading water pollution control facilities and restoring degraded urban waters. Such issues are addressed in this book by focusing on five major topics: (a) Upgrading stormwater management facilities, (b) Retrofitting / upgrading combined sewer overflow (CSO) facilities, (c) Optimising/upgrading sewage treatment plant performance, (d) Urban stream restoration, and (e) Challenges in restoring urban environment. Each chapter contains some overview papers followed by research or case study papers. Besides presentations of new approaches and accomplishments in the field of upgrading and restoration, several papers provide analysis of vast needs in this field in several countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which either recently joined the European Union (EU) or are preparing for accession, and need to comply with the existing EU directives dealing with environmental protection. As such, this book will be of primary interest to researchers and university lecturers dealing with environmental upgrading and restoration, environmental planners from all levels of government, municipal engineers and politicians, and finally the private industry representatives (consultants, private utilities and environmental technology suppliers) searching for new business opportunities among the new or aspiring members of EU.

Download or read book Planning Toronto written by Richard White and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris is famous for romance. Chicago, the blues. Buenos Aires, the tango. And Toronto? Well, Canada’s largest urban centre is known for being a “city that works” – a remarkably livable metropolis for its size. In this lavishly illustrated book, Richard White reveals how urban planning contributed to Toronto becoming a functional, world-class city. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1980, he examines how planners shaped the city and its development amid a maelstrom of local and international obstacles and influences. Based on meticulous research of Toronto’s postwar plans and supplemented by dozens of interviews, Planning Toronto provides a comprehensive and lively explanation of how Toronto’s postwar plans – city, metropolitan, and regional – came to be, who devised them, and what impact they had. When it comes to the history of urban planning, the question may not be whether a particular plan was good or bad but whether in the end it made a difference. As White demonstrates, in Toronto’s case planning did matter – just not always as expected.

Download or read book Report written by Ontario. Royal Commission on Metropolitan Toronto and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book River Basin Management written by Canadian Water Resources Association and published by Department of Geography, University of Waterloo. This book was released on 1983 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of "River Basin Management: Canadian Experiences", a national symposium held in Kitchener, Ontario, October 4-7, 1981. Focuses on strategic issues associated with river basin management in Canada. Covers management problems, alternative solutions, implementing selected plans, and monitoring implemented activities.

Download or read book Toronto Maps written by University of Toronto. Map Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Toronto written by Royal Commission on Metropolitan Toronto (Ont. : 1963-1965) and published by The Commission. This book was released on 1965 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Places written by Betty Roots and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Park, Scarborough Bluffs, the Humber Valley, the Port Lands. These are among the special places of Toronto. Each is a unique ecosystem within the busy urban region. Even though Torontonians think of the city as almost entirely built up, savannah or wetlands are only a subway ride away. Special Places explores the changing ecosystems of the Toronto area over this century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whole region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can still find in many of its natural spaces.

Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Toronto Detailed findings and recommendations written by Royal Commission on Metropolitan Toronto (1974-1977 : Ont.) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Undressed Toronto written by Dale Barbour and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization in the nineteenth century destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront. Instead, we find that these areas were co-opted and transformed into recreation spaces: often with the acceptance of indulgent city officials. While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing needed to be transformed from the predominantly nude male privilege that it had been in the mid-nineteenth century into an activity that women and men could participate in together. That transformation required negotiating and establishing rules for how people would dress and behave when they bathed and setting aside or creating distinct environments for bathing. Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. It explores anxieties about modernity and masculinity and the weight of nostalgia in public perceptions and municipal regulation of public bathing in five Toronto environments that showcase distinct moments in the transition from vernacular bathing to the public beach: the city’s central waterfront, Toronto Island, the Don River, the Humber River, and Sunnyside Beach on Toronto’s western shoreline.

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Download or read book Report written by Metropolitan Toronto (Ont.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Minister of Lands and Forests of the Province of Ontario written by Ontario. Department of Lands and Forests and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the minister of lands forests and mines written by Ontario. Dept. of Lands and Forests and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ontario Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Bibliography for Regional Development written by Ontario. Regional Development Branch and published by The Branch. This book was released on 1966 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: