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THE TORONTO METROPOLITAN REGION: THE BIG PICTURE
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In celebration of internationally recognized Geography Awareness Week, the Neptis Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of an extraordinary new visualization of the Toronto metropolitan region. Taken from 300 kilometres up, the view is in the broad context of the southern Ontario landscape and other neighbouring geography.
The map is available as a LARGE POSTER (28" x 40", $20 + S+H) and DYNAMIC WEBPAGE.
With renewed interest in regional growth management, it is clear that many of the important urban and rural issues, including urban development, transportation, environmental resources, and agriculture, can be best understood at a regional scale. It is only by “zooming out” that we understand the region as a functioning system, in which every part contributes to the whole. The project is intended to help policy-makers, researchers and students gain a wider understanding of the region’s form, features and interconnections. Going forward, the map wiill be used as a base for layering other information to convey important policy issues. We hope this unique map will be of broad public interest and that it will be recognized for its iconic perspective of the region.
Produced in collaboration with As the Crow Flies cARTography, and the Cartography Office of the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, the map was assembled from satellite imagery and richly layered with a suite of thematic data.
For more details on how the map was created or how it can be used, please contact Marcy Burchfield, Geomatics Research Program Manager at the Neptis Foundation, at (mburchfield@neptis.org) or (416-972-9199 ext #24).
Neptis is a Canadian charitable foundation that funds and conducts nonpartisan research and education on the growth and change of urban regions.
Direct Link to Map
Link to project website
In celebration of internationally recognized Geography Awareness Week, the Neptis Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of an extraordinary new visualization of the Toronto metropolitan region. Taken from 300 kilometres up, the view is in the broad context of the southern Ontario landscape and other neighbouring geography.
The map is available as a LARGE POSTER (28" x 40", $20 + S+H) and DYNAMIC WEBPAGE.
With renewed interest in regional growth management, it is clear that many of the important urban and rural issues, including urban development, transportation, environmental resources, and agriculture, can be best understood at a regional scale. It is only by “zooming out” that we understand the region as a functioning system, in which every part contributes to the whole. The project is intended to help policy-makers, researchers and students gain a wider understanding of the region’s form, features and interconnections. Going forward, the map wiill be used as a base for layering other information to convey important policy issues. We hope this unique map will be of broad public interest and that it will be recognized for its iconic perspective of the region.
Produced in collaboration with As the Crow Flies cARTography, and the Cartography Office of the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, the map was assembled from satellite imagery and richly layered with a suite of thematic data.
For more details on how the map was created or how it can be used, please contact Marcy Burchfield, Geomatics Research Program Manager at the Neptis Foundation, at (mburchfield@neptis.org) or (416-972-9199 ext #24).
Neptis is a Canadian charitable foundation that funds and conducts nonpartisan research and education on the growth and change of urban regions.
