Accidental Wilderness by Walter H Kehm

Accidental Wilderness by Walter H Kehm

Accidental Wilderness showcases how the removal of city rubble and its displacement can result in new urban parklands with significant ecological importance for the health of the city and its residents.

"The Spit is miraculous and amazing, growing out of Toronto like a volcanic islandAccidental Wilderness is a stunningly beautiful and hopeful book that captures with writing that is both technical and romantic the story of how the Spit came to be and what it almost was if not for the interventions of the people who protected it."

-- Shawn Micallef * Spacing magazine *

"This book will leave readers with a great appreciation of what has been created in Lake Ontario at the end of Leslie Street and what impact that creation could have on the future of wilderness – accidental or otherwise – in Canada."

-- Michael Olsen * Ontario Field Ornithologists *

"This beautifully produced ode celebrates a unique place on the shores of Toronto's Lake Ontario. The Spit, as it is known locally, was a dump site for the city's midcentury building boom, a landform not so much planned as accumulated. But nature arrived uninvited, spurring several decades of local advocacy, and eventually a singular urban park emerged."

* Landscape Architecture Magazine *

"Part field guide, part environmental history, Accidental Wilderness would make an excellent manual for ecological restoration along the entire lakeshore."

-- Amy Lavender Harris * Spacing Magazine *

"The book’s value is the detailed accounting of how the accidental creation of Tommy Thompson Park evolved in concert with Kehm’s park master plan. The planning and design process could be used as a framework for creating and restoring urban wildlands in Great Lakes communities and other coastal ecosystem areas. Such a framework is especially critical given how climate change is shifting weather-induced physical processes and temperature. Burley’s photography provides the reader with an intimate feel for the created park character. The book is recommended for those interested in more ecologically based planning and design processes."

-- Richard Smardon, SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry * Landscape Journal *

Walter H. Kehm is a landscape architect and was a professor and Director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph.

Robert Burley is an artist working in photography. His projects often explore the transition between city and country.

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ISBN 13	9781487508340
ISBN 10	1487508344
Title	Accidental Wilderness
Author	Walter H Kehm
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Toronto Press
Year published	2020-11-10
Number of pages	176
Prizes	Winner of Canadian Society of Landscape Architects 2021 Award of Excellence – Research 2021 (Canada), Winner of 2021 Heritage Toronto Book Award 2021 (Canada)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.