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The current issue of Built Heritage News can be found here. Click on the link in the previous sentence to access the newsletter. Among the highlights is the following text from Nathan Ng: 10. Historical Maps of Toronto: Simple, free, online access: Nathan Ng Simple, free, online access to historical maps of Toronto One of […]
The following message is from the David Suzuki Foundation: Do you have great ideas and a passion for community? Do you live, work or play in Toronto’s Ward 19? If you answered yes, you need to be part of Toronto’s Homegrown National Park project! The David Suzuki Foundation has embarked on a mission to establish a […]
Updates: The Global Cities at Risk website is focused upon a topic addressed in this blog post. A July 30, 2013 Atlantic Cities article notes that rising sea levels could submerge substantial parts of 1,700 U.S. Cities. An August 20, 2013 Globe and Mail article highlights the predicted effects of rising sea levels as does […]
Peter Hall focuses, in Cities of tomorrow: An intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century, third edition (2002), on the power of ideas. Hall is also author of London voices, London lives: Tales from a working capital (2007), in which Londoners speaks of their lives in their own voices. In his […]
The following text is from the newsletter of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. Past President Lloyd Alter writes: It’s deja vu all over again as another major block of historic buildings are threatened, this time in Hamilton. Just like in Brantford a few years ago, the buildings were not designated, so the developer is able […]
Dec. 20, 2012 CBC article concerning Gore Park strip in Hamilton, Ontario. The opening sentence reads: “A row of historic buildings lining the south side of Gore Park could come down as early as January — radically changing the landscape of downtown Hamilton — unless council moves to protect them.” The facelift and the wrecking […]
From time to time, I like to post items from Built Heritage News. You can subscribe to this newsletter by visiting the website, which you can access through the link in the previous sentence. Click here for information about Built Heritage News. Click here for information about the Toronto branch of the Architectural Conservancy of […]
Toronto has no history! (Victoria Jane Freeman) The following abstract is from Urban History Review, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2010). In 1884, during a week-long commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Toronto’s incorporation in 1834, tens of thousands celebrated Toronto’s history and its relation to British colonialism and imperialism. The author’s analysis of the historical tableaux […]