{"id":2661,"date":"2008-01-13T21:04:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T02:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:46:08","slug":"mapping-our-urbanism-watersheds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/13\/mapping-our-urbanism-watersheds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping our urbanism &#8211; watersheds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricoleurbanism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/080113_watersheds-e.jpg\" title=\"080113_watersheds-e.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bricoleurbanism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/080113_watersheds-e_sm.jpg\" alt=\"080113_watersheds-e_sm.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with its article today about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trca.on.ca\/\" title=\"Toronto and Region Conservation Authority\">TRCA<\/a>&#8216;s work preserving watersheds in the GTA (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/Ontario\/article\/293555\">Clock is ticking for conservation dream<\/a>), <em>The Star<\/em> included a beautiful map of the major watersheds flowing south from the Oak Ridges Moraine through Toronto (click on the image for a larger version). The article describes some of the difficulties the TRCA is having in expanding its protection in the upper reaches of many of the watersheds.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Star<\/em> poetically continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Stripped of political boundaries and roads, the GTA map resembles a vast network of watery arteries originating in the Oak Ridges Moraine and emptying into Lake Ontario.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.thestar.com\/static\/PDF\/080113_watersheds.pdf\">original PDF<\/a> (watch out, 9MB) can be downloaded from their site.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crossposted to <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricoleurbanism.org\/\">bricoleurbanism.org<\/a> <\/em><em> as part V of a series &#8211; to view the four earlier parts follow these links:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricoleurbanism.org\/whimsicality\/mapping-our-ubanism-part-iv-language\/\">Mapping our urbanism part IV &#8211; language<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricoleurbanism.org\/whimsicality\/mapping-our-urbanism-part-iii-water-mains\/\">Mapping our urbanism part III &#8211; water mains<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricoleurbanism.org\/whimsicality\/mapping-our-urbanism-part-ii-extents\/\">Mapping our urbanism part II &#8211; extents<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricoleurbanism.org\/whimsicality\/mapping-our-urbanism-part-i-snow-ploughing\/\">Mapping our urbanism part I &#8211; snow ploughing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with its article today about the TRCA&#8216;s work preserving watersheds in the GTA (Clock is ticking for conservation dream), The Star included a beautiful map of the major watersheds flowing south from the Oak Ridges Moraine through Toronto (click on the image for a larger version). The article describes some of the difficulties the<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/13\/mapping-our-urbanism-watersheds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Mapping our urbanism &#8211; watersheds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,50,47,20],"tags":[23,1182,12,405,19],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-space","category-infrastructure","category-parks","category-urban-design","tag-environment","tag-lake-ontario","tag-planning","tag-the-star","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mapping our urbanism - watersheds - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/13\/mapping-our-urbanism-watersheds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mapping our urbanism - watersheds - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Along with its article today about the TRCA&#8216;s work preserving watersheds in the GTA (Clock is ticking for conservation dream), The Star included a beautiful map of the major watersheds flowing south from the Oak Ridges Moraine through Toronto (click on the image for a larger version). 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