{"id":41310,"date":"2013-02-04T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=41310"},"modified":"2013-02-06T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:35:32","slug":"the-legacy-of-michael-hough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2013\/02\/04\/the-legacy-of-michael-hough\/","title":{"rendered":"The legacy of Michael Hough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/02\/hough.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41311 alignright\" style=\"border: 15px solid white;\" alt=\"hough\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/02\/hough.jpeg\" width=\"230\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI believe in the necessity of cities as sentinels of global-regional change, and the need to characterize them as urban landscapes. Ecology is urbanization and urbanization is ecology.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Michael Hough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opsys.net\/index.php?\/publications\/interview-michael-hough\/\" target=\"_blank\">2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Landscape architect, environmental advocate, and ecological urbanist, Micheal Hough passed away on January 25th at the age of 84. It is a sad loss for Toronto: Hough&#8217;s work and advocacy helped shape some of our city&#8217;s most prized public spaces, as well as restore our natural infrastructure, and improve our approach to urban planning.<\/p>\n<p>The first issue of <em>Spacing<\/em> featured a <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/magazine\/section\/hidden-gems\/forest-amongst-the-buildings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Gem article<\/a> by former Greenspace columnist Todd Irvine on the mini Boreal forest designed by Hough, which can be found in the courtyard of the University of Toronto\u2019s earth sciences building. (It&#8217;s still there; it&#8217;s still a gem, and we still recommend you give it a visit if you haven&#8217;t already). The secluded courtyard remains a testament to Hough&#8217;s approach to urban design.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe loves cities, he loves nature, he insists on a link between the two, and he\u2019ll tell you, every day if you ask him, that the regeneration of one is the salvation of the other,\u201d said Mayor David Crombie when Hough was awarded the City of Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design in 1991 (as reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautifulbotany.com\/Story%20Archives\/Botany%20&amp;%20Insects\/Environmental%20Studies%20-%20Michael%20Hough.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a 1997 article\u00a0<em>Toronto Life<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>After Hurricane Hazel struck Toronto in 1954, destroying homes along the Humber River and killing 81 people, Hough helped advocate for the <a href=\"http:\/\/trca.on.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Region Conservation Authority<\/a>. \u201cRegional pre-planning, and the structural agency of regional watersheds was imperative,\u201d he later told Pierre B\u00e9langer in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opsys.net\/index.php?\/publications\/interview-michael-hough\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 2009<\/a>. Hough also worked closely with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/don\/about_us.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Task Force to Bring Back the Don<\/a>, a citizen\u2019s group working to clean up the polluted Don River. He co-wrote the 1991 report, <em>Bringing Back the Don<\/em>, which won a Canadian Institute of Planners Award for Planning Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Hough designed the landscape for Ontario place and Scarborough College, and the Master Plan for the Brickworks Regeneration Project, among other award winning projects. He founded the University of Toronto\u2019s Landscape Architecture program in 1965 and later became a professor in the Environmental Studies Faculty at York University.\u00a0Hough&#8217;s extensive written work, which includes the book <em>Cities and Natural Processes,<\/em> is required reading for landscape architecture, planning, and urban forestry students alike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael Hough was one of a number of leaders who transformed the profession of Landscape Architecture in Canada and brought international attention to Canadian Design and the profession,&#8221; said the current Director of U of T\u2019s Landscape Architecture program, Robert Wright. &#8220;He pioneered environmental- and ecological-based design through his work, through all the scales of design, from region, to city and to site&#8230; We owe Michael a debt that can never fully be repaid except through our own continued commitment to the issues he so dearly believed in and demonstrated through his work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI believe in the necessity of cities as sentinels of global-regional change, and the need to characterize them as urban landscapes. 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