Yet “remnants of wilderness have been left behind,” as Anne Michaels wrote in Fugitive Pieces. And if you want to get there from Moore Park, you’ll find the stairs gated shut. Toronto’s ravines “are the shared subconscious of the municipality,” Robert Fulford once argued in the National Post. Nowadays the stigmas have lifted, but the ravines are still obviously underused — whatever you think they ought to be used for. Toronto makes excellent use of the upper Don Valley, our biggest “ravine.” Like much of this city, Thorncliffe Park is socially and commercially vibrant but esthetically rather bleak.

Source: National Post July 08, 2016 14:48 UTC