Toronto’s Cultural Landscape Guide

Undergraduate Students: Samson Ahensan, Daniela DeGasperis, Aida Habibelahi, Daniel Marchesan, Arin Mardirossian, Ramiya Rajalingam, Arianna Rueda-Lascano, Curtis Shum, Deidre Tomlinson, Alessandro Valente, Katryna Vergis-Mayo

Founded by Charles Birnbaum, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that provides people with the tools to see, understand and value cultural landscapes and the designers, planners and landscape architects that help to create these places.  TCLF’s What’s Out There (WOT) guides and the associated online database serve as a reference to cultural landscapes for the public, academics and professionals. The guides provoke interest, inform stewardship decisions, and enrich the collective understanding of our designed landscape history. In print and online, the WOT guides are a series of publications that serve as a unique place-based model to the cultural landscapes of selected cities in North America.



Undergraduate and graduate student groups were tasked with contributing to the dialogue on the importance of cultural landscapes within the City of Toronto to inform the work of TCLF.  The groups developed comprehensive guides that outlined various forms and sites of cultural heritage that exist in Toronto across temporal and spatial scales intended to: identify and raise public awareness of cultural landscapes, highlight their connections to the public realm and local history, and to underscore the importance of their protection.