An Enduring Wilderness: Torontos Natural Parklands
Autor Robert Burleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 mai 2017
The City of Toronto, together with prominent landscape photographer Robert Burley, has embarked on an innovative legacy project to raise public awareness about the often hidden and remote wilderness spaces within Toronto’s parkland system. These natural parklands are primarily located along the waterfront or deep within the valley systems that thread throughout the city. The long term future of these natural parklands is at a critical juncture. As the urban population continues to grow and more people seek out nature in the city, the protection of these fragile natural places will be paramount. This project aims to respond to growing public interest in the value of natural parklands in an urban context through a book and photographic exhibition.
In 2011, landscape photographer Robert Burley was commissioned by the City of Toronto to produce photographic documentation of the wilderness spaces along the shoreline and throughout the ravine system. This photographic record is intended to illustrate how, despite increasing intensification and use, wild places, woven into the urban fabric continue to endure.
The book will present a selection of photographs, together with experiential essays by accomplished writers such as George Elliott Clarke, Anne Michaels, Michael Mitchell and Alissa York, and a historical essay on the evolution of Toronto’s natural parklands. The purpose of the essays is to provide original, thoughtful material that expands readers’ understanding and appreciation of these natural spaces and resonates with the experience of people using the natural parklands.
The book will be released to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Canada in 2017. This will be the first official City publication to fully document and celebrate Toronto’s natural parklands. A photographic exhibition is planned to coincide with the release of the book and will draw and build upon the photographic and written content of the book.
In 2011, landscape photographer Robert Burley was commissioned by the City of Toronto to produce photographic documentation of the wilderness spaces along the shoreline and throughout the ravine system. This photographic record is intended to illustrate how, despite increasing intensification and use, wild places, woven into the urban fabric continue to endure.
The book will present a selection of photographs, together with experiential essays by accomplished writers such as George Elliott Clarke, Anne Michaels, Michael Mitchell and Alissa York, and a historical essay on the evolution of Toronto’s natural parklands. The purpose of the essays is to provide original, thoughtful material that expands readers’ understanding and appreciation of these natural spaces and resonates with the experience of people using the natural parklands.
The book will be released to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Canada in 2017. This will be the first official City publication to fully document and celebrate Toronto’s natural parklands. A photographic exhibition is planned to coincide with the release of the book and will draw and build upon the photographic and written content of the book.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781770413795
ISBN-10: 1770413790
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: Color photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 305 x 229 mm
Greutate: 1.76 kg
Editura: ECW Press
Colecția ECW Press
ISBN-10: 1770413790
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: Color photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 305 x 229 mm
Greutate: 1.76 kg
Editura: ECW Press
Colecția ECW Press
Notă biografică
Since the mid-1980s, photographer Robert Burley has used the camera as a recording device to make fleeting traces of the material world permanent. He lives in Toronto.
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Featuring tributes from award-winning writers
In a city sometimes referred to as The Big Smoke, Toronto s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. However, the last 25 years has seen these distinctive landscapes rediscovered and even embraced as great civic spaces. Commissioned by the City of Toronto to chronicle the wonders of these wilderness parks, renowned photographer Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from breathtaking lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, Canada s first and only urban national park.
Burley s photos are augmented with selections of poetry and prose by some of Toronto s best-known writers, including Anne Michaels, George Elliott Clarke, Alissa York, and Michael Mitchell. A historical essay and an appendix highlight the history, the biodiversity, and the priceless cultural value of these urban parklands. Though confined to the city limits, An Enduring Wilderness is full of surprising ecological and urban discoveries that know no limits themselves."
In a city sometimes referred to as The Big Smoke, Toronto s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. However, the last 25 years has seen these distinctive landscapes rediscovered and even embraced as great civic spaces. Commissioned by the City of Toronto to chronicle the wonders of these wilderness parks, renowned photographer Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from breathtaking lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, Canada s first and only urban national park.
Burley s photos are augmented with selections of poetry and prose by some of Toronto s best-known writers, including Anne Michaels, George Elliott Clarke, Alissa York, and Michael Mitchell. A historical essay and an appendix highlight the history, the biodiversity, and the priceless cultural value of these urban parklands. Though confined to the city limits, An Enduring Wilderness is full of surprising ecological and urban discoveries that know no limits themselves."