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fromFast Company
20 hours ago

In Toronto, a polluted industrial wasteland is now a beautiful park

"It's incredibly transformed," says Emily Mueller De Celis, a landscape architect at the firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, which won a competition to "renaturalize" the area in 2007. "Rather than walking around in and amongst oil refineries and other industry, now you are immersed in nature, walking along the banks of a river with spectacular views back to the city."
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

Viable ancient organisms and seeds preserved in century-old waterfront soils reveal pre-urban wetland biodiversity and inform large-scale river and habitat restoration.
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