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Not all development is parallel to the water’s edge. At the intersection with the major northward avenues, several designed elements celebrate the city’s ‘lines of culture’. designer Julie Moir Messervy and musician Yo-Yo Ma – a cohesive waterfront design strategy has consistently failed to materialise. The intent of the West 8 scheme is to create continuous public connections to the city. Running the length of the waterfront is the ‘public row’, an 18-metre (59-foot) wide wooden and maple-treed boardwalk with seven undulating heavy timber bridges that leap over the existing slipheads. The bridges give pedestrians uninterrupted access along the water’s edge, but more importantly they speak the vernacular of the heavy timber railway bridges that once dominated the Canadian north. The major parallel artery of Queens Quay Boulevard will be devoted equally to the pedestrian and cars. Reduced from four lanes to two, the southern lanes will be configured as an animated granite esplanade connecting new landscaped moments (such as the Rees Shoreline, reshaped as the rocky Canadian Shield) to the already successful Queens Quay Terminal. But the notion of connection does not solely run parallel to the water’s edge. Celebrating the city’s ‘lines of culture’, several signature moments are created at the foot of major northward boulevards. The most whimsical is at the base of University Avenue, where a floating bioremediation reef in the form of the iconic maple leaf will tip its hat to Queen’s Park, the city’s political seat. Additionally, the boardwalk will connect to the extensive Martin Goodman ravine trail system and tie into the West Donlands community, a new mixed-use development for 100,000 people on reclaimed brownlands at the mouth of the Don River. What West 8 also does is force the city to deal with another festering legacy: the Gardiner Expressway, an elevated highway that severs the city core from the water’s edge. No doubt Toronto is somewhat timid when it comes to large-scale urban design projects, so the suggestion of demolishing the elevated expressway and replacing it with a Champs Élyséesstyle boulevard will certainly take some strong political will to enact. While the initial budget of $20 million falls short, there are urban precedents such as Boston and its equivalent ‘Big Dig’ initiative – a multibillion-dollar megaproject to reroute and bury the city’s central traffic artery. If, however, removing the Gardiner is a nonstarter, Geuze has not left the city wanting as the team also plans to plant thousands of new maple trees to re-establish the original summer greenery and autumn colour spectacle of the waterfront – or as Geuze calls it, the city’s ‘green foot’. Throughout its history, Toronto has shown some commitment to urban parks. One notable example is Cloud Gardens, a small urban park in the financial core that features a cluster of trees, a crescent lawn and a small greenhouse that re-creates the damp conditions of the coastal mountain ecology. But the waterfront has unfortunately been plagued by promises, spurts and perpetual disputes over land ownership. Hopefully, Geuze’s design will have the teeth to finally become a reality. The timing could certainly not be better given the recent wave of civic exuberance and private patronage sweeping through the city. If nothing else, the project has proved itself as legitimate, as some of the most innovative designers, including London’s Foster and Partners and New York’s Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, responded to the original competition call. Ultimately, the West 8 scheme addresses many of the same urban issues that plague cities also facing lakefront challenges, but the bigger civic issue still remains: will the city deliver on its promise and create a great waterfront on a par with those of Chicago or New York, or will our new lakeshore vision dry up yet again? 4 Text © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Images © West 8 + DTAH joint venture 51
Operationalising Patch Dynamics Victoria Marshall and Brian McGrath have developed and transferred the ecological model of ‘patch dynamics’ to urban landscape design. It is an approach that stresses the resilient, flexible and adaptable nature of cities, interacting with a ‘notion of disturbance ecology rather than a benign nature’. Here they apply their design approach to Hoboken, on the New Jersey Gold Coast, which, only a hop and a skip from Manhattan, directly across the Hudson from the Financial District, remains culturally and economically diverse. 52
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