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As if there wasn’t enough to think about on the Waterfront these days, an unofficial Expo 2015<\/a> website has been launched, branding Toronto’s Expo theme, “The Future of the City.” The site’s creators hope that a successful bid would provide a “realistic look at what innovations can be made to help enhance the quality of life of urban space around the world.” Their plan calls for the Expo to spread out over three waterfront locations: Exhibition Place, the Docklands, and the Toronto Island Airport.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> you can find the City’s more comprehensive plans for the bid. The 136 page document, released May 11, proposes a broader theme: “The Spirit of Ingenuity.”<\/p>\n

“The Spirit of Ingenuity” will look at how cities and nations rapidly evolve and how essential ingenuity is to address the challenges ahead in order to create a sustainable future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The official report suggests Downsview, the Portlands, and a split Portlands \/ Island Airport as possible sites for the Expo. The most detail is given to the Portlands site, and rightfully so. With Downsview not exactly central, and the split site (by the report’s own admission) too costly and difficult to service, the Portlands is the most attractive. This is fortunate, since the split site plans include the construction of not one, but two<\/em> bridges to the island airport, specifically to deal with “cars and truck traffic generated by the Expo.”
\nThe Portlands site would include (among dozens of other amenties) a 5,000 seat amphitheatre, a world museum of aboriginal art, and “innovative housing.” Of course, none of this will matter unless the federal government decides to submit Toronto’s bid to host the Expo by November 3 this year, but it certainly makes for interesting reading with the bottom of the city under such scrutiny these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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