[PHOTO] Walking the Green Line, Toronto
May. 9th, 2016 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe title of the Jane's Walk "Walk the Green Line: Infrastructures of Park Space" refers to the Green Line, a proposal to transform the chain of parkettes and green hydro corridors stretching southeast from Earlscourt Park almost to Dupont into a single linear park. Walk leaders Hon Lu and Netami Stuart did a great job of explaining the nature of the project, the challenges of park design in an era of environmental and political sensitivity, and the history of the neighbourhoods we went through.
Earlscourt Park can be quite beautiful.
Following the hydro towers as we were, we obviously could not escape them. I was glad, since I'm also fond of their artificial metallic beauty.
The Green Line proposal was explained by a report that the walk leaders were kind enough to hand around.
For whatever reason, there were plenty of dogwood trees planted in the corridor, blooming as if for us.
We were a good-sized crowd.
This odd ground-level footbridge, we were told, was built to minimize the contact of people with contaminated land. In old industrial neighbourhoods like western Davenport, the costs of environmental remediation can be significant.
On the east side of Dufferin, opposite Chandos Park, lies this narrow path between hydro transformers. The Green Line narrows here.
The far side of this path broadens out into a grassy space that looks suspiciously park-like.
This willow, swollen with age, towers over the Bristol Avenue Parkette.
Earlscourt Park can be quite beautiful.
Following the hydro towers as we were, we obviously could not escape them. I was glad, since I'm also fond of their artificial metallic beauty.
The Green Line proposal was explained by a report that the walk leaders were kind enough to hand around.
For whatever reason, there were plenty of dogwood trees planted in the corridor, blooming as if for us.
We were a good-sized crowd.
This odd ground-level footbridge, we were told, was built to minimize the contact of people with contaminated land. In old industrial neighbourhoods like western Davenport, the costs of environmental remediation can be significant.
On the east side of Dufferin, opposite Chandos Park, lies this narrow path between hydro transformers. The Green Line narrows here.
The far side of this path broadens out into a grassy space that looks suspiciously park-like.
This willow, swollen with age, towers over the Bristol Avenue Parkette.
