While researching the Annapolis Royal award for Communities in Bloom, 2008, I discovered a project that was launched in 2006, Orphaned Spaces in Toronto. The orphaned spaces are areas that become lost in the shuffles of creating homes, businesses, parks, utility and transportation corridors and other phenomenon associated with large urban spaces. The Design Exchange and the Clean and Beautiful City Secretariat ( not sure that it is doing much based on what I observe around me) and the City of Toronto launched this project.
What a wonderful idea and I have seen at least one location that I now know has benefited from this programme, the intersection of Front and Eastern Avenue. I wonder if the rest of us can take on projects even we can not access the $1500 that had been allocated to each ward.
Will try to get a picture of the area.
Will be following up on the excellent concept.
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