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Toronto is going through a remarkable growth spurt and becoming more and more diverse. Ken Greenberg, urban designer, writer, and former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto, will describe the emerging contours of a new Toronto. Focusing on the period from 1970 to the present, Greenberg looks at how the work and decisions of the citizens, NGOs, businesses, and governments have combined to refashion Toronto. Individually and collectively, their actions ? renovating buildings and neighbourhoods, building startling new structures and urban spaces, revitalizing old cultural institutions and creating new ones, sponsoring new festivals and events ? have transformed the old postwar city, changing it into and exciting modern one. He will draw on his two books Walking Home (2011) and Toronto Reborn (2019).
Local History Evenings at Northern District Branch are cosponsored by the North Toronto Historical Society and Toronto Public Library. Programs are held the last Wednesday of the month in Room 224, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. (Please note: refreshments will be served from 7:10-7:30 p.m.) There is no registration/fee required and everyone is welcome.
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