Return water of Canada Toronto lakeside revival plan

We live in a hurry to modern city. TheyDa TongMinor differences, in the competition, higher than a building, road width. This is the car city, is the vision of the city. Xin Lao coexist, multiple functions coexist construction, as well as the streets walkable, small scale of the square, the high degree of openness in the park? In addition to the traffic and landscape function, these public communication space, these germinal City diversity carrier in where?

Toronto Lake area ten years reconstruction, and more cases in the city, or to provide a public space for us by germinal City diversity in the sample.

The Toronto Lake Region

"Lakeside revival plan" is from Toronto City, Ontario ProvinceCanadaThree levels of government in city reconstruction project started in 2001. Responsible for the project development company Waterfront Toronto initially funded by the three levels of government. "Lakeside revival plan" to use the original southern Toronto city of Ling'an near Lake Ontario abandoned industrial and dilapidated old quarter, according to the planning and construction, the sustainable development in harmony with nature and transformation of adult development of green community. The project covers an area of 800 hectares, is the largest city renovation project in North america. Park, waterfront promenade, the beach, and after the transformation is more suitable for walking street, is to break the barriers between city and lake, Toronto will become a real waterfront city, and create good at the diversity of city public space.

Lake area has been completed and the project under construction also has the office, residential, commercial and other city functions. Small scale mixing function, old house, retention, and high density, Jane Jacobs (Jane Jacobs) in "The United States of AmericaDeath and life in the big city "(The Death and Life of Great American Cities) to maintain the list of the principle of city diversity in one book, the rise in 1990's" New Urbanism "(New Urbanism) has great influence. While other areas of these principles in the Toronto lake and the Downtown can be found. In 1967 Jacobs moved to the city. As a citizen of Toronto in forty years or so, like herNew YorkThe same time, her efforts did not stop in the books, in order to make their own city more beautiful, she has been in action, and the impact so far.

Case: Candy beach and wasteland reconstruction

"More open to what? In order to make up something like this happen? In order to dim the vacuum left between those buildings? Or to allow civilians to use, enjoy? But the problem is open to people using the city is not just because it's there, and not just because the city planners and designers want them to use it." Jane Jacobs.

Sugar beach and wasteland reconstruction

Political impulse can be internalized into the young capital business vitality, there is no answer, but a broad highway network are more than we built has been extending all the way to the unknown distant hills, a complex network of roads connecting to each other, circle plots only cattle and farmland.

In 8 at the end of an afternoon, the sun in full bloom pink sunshade, beach chair in by twos and threes are wearing sunglasses with people enjoy sunbathing. When wearing a suit of Derek Goring and Bruce Sudds appeared in this environment, somewhat be misfits.

"I hope you like candy beach." Sudds said, as the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp (WATERFRONTtoronto) project communication interim manager, he served as director of the company and the development of Goring to host identity, with me in the afternoon tour of the completed by the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp a beach.

Clearly there is Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp's favourite work, facing the terminal region of Redpath mill, a year ago are still only a dull and no linger in the parking lot, but as a part of the Toronto Lake recovery plan, the old factory here are removed by land, industrial pollution is non-toxic cleaning, after design competition fierce, this piece of land at the foot of the identified reconstruction as a beach.

Now, lying in the white sand beach chair, stepping on the foot of the United States from Ohio to white sand island, Toronto Ontario lake light blue of the lake and verdant trees right in front, Fan Ying everywhere, manner reeks of urban style beauty lazily doing sunbathe, for a moment, I feel in the Mediterranean Sea an island beach.