No Accidental City Video
April 26, 2017
Urban Strategies produced a short video to kick off Electric Cities, ULI Toronto’s Spring Symposium, held April 24 and 25th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Over 1000 attendees from the real estate development, policy, and consulting fields attended what was a thought-provoking program.
The theme of the video, No Accidental City, is a nod to Robert Fulford’s 1995 book “Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto“. In the 20+ years since that book’s publication, Toronto has been transformed, arguably through well-considered planning decisions and regional policy. This video celebrates these successes and looks to the future, culminating in a model sequence depicting the planned changes to downtown Toronto.
Our visualizations team has captured the extraordinary growth that has occurred in the last 20 years, and the even more stunning growth yet to come. This proprietary model, continuously developed over the last decade, provides an essential resource for Urban Strategies to place clients’ developments or master plans within the current and future context of this exploding metropolis. For more information, contact our lead model maker, Senior Associate Geoff Whittaker.
We gratefully acknowledge and credit all of the source material:
Artscape
City of Toronto
City of Hamilton
City of Vaughan
First Gulf
Greater Toronto Airports Authority
Gregory Greene, director & producer
Ivanhoé Cambridge
Metrolinx
RioCan REIT, Allied Properties, Diamond Corp
The Bentway
Toronto Financial District
Toronto Public Library
Toronto and Region Conservation
Toronto Transit Commission
Tourism Toronto
Waterfront Toronto
Music:
The Secret Society Toronto
Mustafa Ismaeel – Endless Vacation (Original Mix)
Images:
Aga Khan Museum – Flickr/sean_marshall
Ryerson Student Centre – Flickr/Umair Khan