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Imagining a new Toronto

The works of finalists in Spacing’s thinkToronto Urban Design Ideas competition were formally showcased in the City Hall rotunda earlier this month. Hopefully, planners occupying offices a few storeys up took note. Wow. T.O.’s next generation of city-builders have some way-out and wonderful ideas. Here’s a few.

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1 Extending the material world into the natural world, a learning centre is proposed for that most accidental of natural wonders, Tommy Thompson Park (aka the Leslie Street Spit).

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2 Harnessing the power of the sun to green the ceilings of our subway stations – so logical it sounds preposterous. We love it.

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Image courtesy of Spacing

3 Call it the beaten PATH. It snakes aimlessly through the bowels of our city, but we can turn the subterranean world into a shining path by just letting a little light in.

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Image courtesy of Spacing

4 The real word on the street – transit shelters converted into tiny libraries, futuristic nodes where the exchange of great ideas that fire a city’s creative potential take root.

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