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JULIE C OURCEAU

City Growth

12/12/2017

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The last 117 years have seen Toronto's growth explode to unimaginable heights.

These maps are showing beautifully the growth and expansion, which in the youtube video from The Shape of the Suburbs in Fall 2013 roundtable, are mesmerizing to me. Notice the obvious unshaded areas revealing  parks and ravines, hydro corridors and railroads.

The book, Toronto: Transformations in a City and its Region, examines the transformations in Toronto since its founding in 1793, and contains many insightful images and maps to understand the extent of Toronto's mutations. The next images to study could possibly be  be the obvious third dimension, the vertical sprawl?

The base map is current, Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway shown for reference, and many of the arterial roads shown here were only opened all the way after 1950.
Images produced by “Toronto Transforms”, the website is an extension of Edward Relph`s book Toronto: Transformations in a City and its Region, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 as part of its series of portraits of metropolitan regions of North America.
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    The blog connects thoughts on Landscape and Architecture, design, and mostly the connections between landscape architecture, art and our beautiful Toronto.
    I like to think that the large works on paper on which I assemble different drawing methods represent a kind of inventory or document about the state of our urban rivers.
    These works are of sort, investigations though architectural representation, cartography, abstract drawings, watercolour paintings, sketching, collages, and mostly creating pieces; connections and projections of history,  the environment, natural, man made, and often times, the abstract.
    Playing music, when not submerged in the creation of spacial art.

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