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Neo-eclectic architecture
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Neo-eclectic architecture is a name for an architectural style that has influenced residential building construction in North America in the later part of the 20th century and early part of the 21st. It is a version of Architectural Revivalism that has perennially occurred since Neoclassical architecture developed in the mid 18th century. Neo-eclectic architecture combines an array of decorative techniques taken from an assortment of different house styles. It is an outgrowth of postmodern architecture and it differs from postmodernism in that it is not creatively experimental. Some neo-eclectic buildings will combine an array of different historical styles in a single building, a house so designed may have Cape Cod, Mission Revival, Tudor Revival, or Châteauesque and French Provincial elements all at the same time. Often houses, or whole subdivisions, will focus on one revival style, different historical styles predominated in different regions. In California elements from the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival Style continue to be a vernacular and popular. In New England and the Mid-Atlantic the Colonial Revival Style and Georgian Revival architecture combinations are common, in neo-eclectic architecture the revival elements are almost always decorative, consisting of surface elements such as claddings and windows. The basic construction of houses is unchanged from previous house styles such as the ranch-style house. Neo-eclectic architecture is most prominent in what are known as McMansions. Across North America most suburbs built in the last three decades can largely be described as neo-eclectic, critics of Neo-eclectic architecture see the style as pretentious, wasteful and/or garish. New Classical Architecture, an accurate reference style to historical architecture. Neomodern architecture, a current modernist response, Sustainable architecture Sustainable development Sustainable design Snout house Picture Dictionary of House Styles in North America and Beyond - Neoeclectic Humanities Web - Neo-Eclectic Style
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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North York
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North York is a suburban district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located north of Old Toronto, between Etobicoke to the west and Scarborough to the east. As of the 2011 Census, it had a population of 655,913 and it was first created as a township in 1922 out of the northern part of the former city of York, a municipality that was located along the western border of Old Toronto. Following its inclusion in Metropolitan Toronto in 1954, it was one of the fastest growing parts of the due to its proximity to Old Toronto. In 1998, North York was amalgamated with the rest of Metropolitan Toronto to form the new city of Toronto, the Township of North York was formed on June 13,1922 out of the rural part of the Township of York. The rapidly growing parts of the township remained in that township, as North York became more populous, it became the Borough of North York in 1967, and then on February 14,1979, the City of North York. To commemorate receiving its city charter on St. Valentines Day and it now forms the largest part of the area served by the North York Community Council, a committee of Toronto City Council. North York used to be known as an agricultural hub composed of scattered villages. The area boomed following World War II, and by the 1950s and 1960s, on August 10,2008, a massive explosion occurred at the Sunrise Propane Industrial Gases propane facility just southwest of the Toronto-Downsview Airport. This destroyed the depot and damaged several homes nearby, about 13,000 residents were evacuated for several days before being allowed back home. One employee at the company was killed in the blast and one died while attending to the scene of the accident. A follow-up investigation to the incident made several recommendations concerning propane supply depots and it asked for a review of setback distances between depots and nearby residential areas but didnt call for restrictions on where they can be located. North York residents are highly multicultural, the neighbourhood with the largest percentage of visible minorities in North York is the Grandravine-Yorkwoods area in Jane and Finch with 93%. The western half of North York is culturally different from the eastern half, chinese cultural groups dominate the eastern half of North York making up 22% of the population from Yonge Street to Victoria Park Avenue. South Asians are mainly spread out evenly in North York, there are large South Asian communities in Emery and Flemingdon Park. The neighbourhood with the largest percentage of South Asians in North York Gateway-Glenway area is Flemingdon Park with 46%, Black Canadians dominate the western half of North York making up 19% of the population past Allen Road. Most of North Yorks Black community is along Jane Street and areas around it, smaller areas such as Jane and Finch, Lawrence Heights, and Trethewey had more than 40% of its population identified as Black. Most are from the Caribbean but there is also a large west African population, the Jane & Wilson neighbourhood has the largest Ghanaian community in Toronto
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Bathurst Street (Toronto)
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Bathurst Street is a main north-south thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It begins at an intersection of the Queens Quay roadway, just north of the Lake Ontario shoreline and it continues north through Toronto to the Toronto boundary at Steeles Avenue. It is a four-lane thoroughfare throughout Toronto, the roadway continues north into York Region where it is known as York Regional Road 38. Bathurst Street begins in the south at the intersection with Queens Quay, the southernmost part of Bathurst, south of the Gardiner Expressway, was heavily industrialized until the 1970s. These factories are now gone, in their place some residential development has occurred, the former Omni Television headquarters are located in this area, before they relocated in October 2008 but Rogers Media still owns the building. North of the Gardiner is Fort York on the western side, the Sir Isaac Brock Bridge connects the section south of Fort York to the section north of the railways. The bridge, dating back to 1910, used to be the bridge over the Humber River and was moved here. North of the tracks, the area is a mix of commercial and residential buildings on the western fringe of downtown. North of Queen Street, the side of Bathurst is the edge of the Alexandria Park cluster of housing projects. North of Dundas Street, Bathurst is dominated by Toronto Western Hospital and this part of the street continues to be a mix of small commercial establishments and residential housing, generally rental apartments. North of College Street, Bathurst becomes more residential, with the exception of areas, chiefly around the intersections with Bloor Street, St. Clair Avenue. The portion of Bathurst Street north of Bloor Street is the boundary of The Annex neighbourhood. The Spadina segment of Toronto Transit Commission Line 1 Yonge–University crosses underneath Bathurst north of St. Clair, North of Eglinton, the street continues as a four-lane arterial road into the former borough of North York. The street has lay-bys for TTC buses and turning lanes at intersections, development along both sides of the road is both residential and commercial, with shopping plazas at many intersections. The West Branch of the Don River crosses Bathurst Street north of Sheppard, North of Steeles Avenue, Bathurst runs through York Region, and is also referred to as York Regional Road 38. From Steeles north, the road is a arterial road. It serves many residential sub-divisions on either side and it serves as the boundary between Vaughan and Richmond Hill north of Highway 407, and between King Township and Newmarket and Aurora. Bathurst Street ends at the Holland Marsh, between Holland Landing and Bradford and it is interrupted for roughly 500 m due to rugged terrain north of Morning Sideroad, north of Newmarket
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Ontario Highway 401
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It stretches 828.0 kilometres from Windsor in the west to the Ontario–Quebec border in the east. The part of Highway 401 that passes through Toronto is North Americas busiest highway, the route is maintained by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario and patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police. The speed limit is 100 km/h throughout its length, unless posted otherwise and these three sections of highway were 11.8,54.7 and 41.2 km, respectively. In 1964, the route became fully navigable from Windsor to the Ontario–Quebec border, in 1965 it was given a second designation, the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway, in honour of the Fathers of Confederation. At the end of 1968, the Gananoque–Brockville section was bypassed, in 2011, construction began on a westward extension called the Right Honourable Herb Gray Parkway. This new route follows, but does not replace, former Highway 3 between the end of the freeway and the E. C. Row Expressway, at which point it turns and parallels that route towards the site of the future Gordie Howe International Bridge, an 8-kilometre section of the parkway, east of the E. C. Row interchange, opened on June 28,2015, with the remaining section completed and opened on November 21, the expansive twelve-plus-lane collector–express system will also be extended west through Mississauga to Milton and east through Ajax and Whitby. Highway 401 extends across Southwestern, Central and Eastern Ontario, in anticipation of the future expansion of the highway, the transportation ministry purchased a 91. 4-metre-wide right-of-way along the entire length. Generally, the highway occupies only a portion of this allotment and this makes it North Americas busiest roadway, surpassing the Santa Monica Freeway in Los Angeles and I-75 in Atlanta. Highway 401 also features North Americas busiest multi-structure bridge, located at Hoggs Hollow in Toronto, the four bridges, two for each direction with the collector and express lanes, carried an average of 373,700 vehicles daily in 2006. The highway is one of the backbones of a network in the Great Lakes region, connecting the populous Quebec City–Windsor corridor with Michigan, New York. It is the connection between Toronto and Montreal, becoming Autoroute 20 at the Ontario–Quebec border. At present, Highway 401 begins as a freeway at the west end of the E. C. At the Dougall Parkway, the highway turns east and exits Windsor, from here, Highway 401 mostly parallels the former route of Highway 98 from Windsor to Tilbury. Southwestern Ontario is flat, primarily land, that takes advantage of the fertile clay soil deposited throughout the region. Here the highways flat and straight route is notorious for leading to driver inattention, the section from Windsor to London has become known for deadly car accidents and pile-ups, earning it the nickname Carnage Alley. As the highway approaches London, Highway 402 merges in, resulting in a six-lane cross-section, within London, it intersects the citys two municipal expressways, Highbury Avenue and the Veterans Memorial Parkway
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Steeles Avenue
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Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. Steele, who owned the Green Bush Hotel on the northwest corner of the intersection with Yonge Street. York Region refers to Steeles Avenue as Regional Road 95, but the designation is strictly internal, Steeles in Scarborough was once referred to as Scarborough Town Line. The combination of Steeles and Taunton Road is the only road to cross almost the entire Greater Toronto Area without breaks or turnoffs. Steeles Avenue is a rural road east of York Regional Road 69. The area consists of parklands in the east end, a mix of commercial and residential in the middle, like many other east-west arterial roads within Toronto and York Region, Steeles is divided into an east and west segment by Yonge Street. East of Scarborough-Pickering Town Line / York-Durham Line, it becomes Taunton Road or Durham Regional Road 4, West of Albion Road, Steeles Avenue continues into Peel Region, where it is also designated as Peel Regional Road 15. Like the section in Toronto, Steeles Avenue in Brampton has east-west segments and it runs through Brampton and into Halton Region, where it is also designated as Halton Regional Road 8, through the town of Milton, ending at Appleby Line. The road is served predominantly by TTC bus routes 53 Steeles East and 60 Steeles West, both routes turn away from Steeles upon approaching Yonge Street. York Region Transit routes that run along Steeles include 3,10,88,12, work is underway to extend Line 1 Yonge–University through York University and into Vaughan, which will include a station to be called Pioneer Village at Steeles Avenue. MoveOntario 2020 also includes plans to extend the Yonge Line north and add a station at Yonge, Steeles Avenue East will be made the third arterial for Bramptons Züm bus rapid transit. In October 2008, it was crowned the worst road in Ontario. Reasons include potholes and general quality of surface, soon after the results of CAAs survey were made public, some parts of the road between Dufferin Street and Bayview Avenue were resurfaced. The results of the 2009 survey listed Steeles as Ontarios worst road, landmarks and notable sites along Steeles from west to east
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Bayview Village
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Bayview Village is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the federal Don Valley North riding and the provincial Willowdale electoral district, in 2006, it had a population of 15,370. The present day Bayview Village neighbourhood was planned in 1954 by a group of developers led by Farlinger Development Ltd, Bayview Village was hailed as contemporary living in the countryside, at the doorstep of the urban concentration of Metropolitan Toronto. The design and layout of Bayview Village is very influenced by the East Don Valley Parklands. Faludis trademark curvilinear street pattern that follows the contours of the land was designed to highlight the natural beauty of the neighbourhood. Nearly a quarter of the space in Bayview Village is green, Bayview Villages winding streets and culs-de-sac are planted with mature birch, cedar, willow, spruce, pine and maple trees. Some of the Bayview Village houses are situated on lots that feature views of the East Don River Valley Parklands. Several of the names in Bayview Village, such as Citation Drive. Ravenscroft Circle recall that the area was a training stable. In the Bayview Village area, there are United, Greek Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican churches, homeowners are actively represented by the Bayview Village Association. Established in 1956, this is a group of residents who work to monitor city and provincial initiatives on a wide range of topics including traffic, local development, parks. In addition, they produce a regular newsletter distributed to all homes covering a range of topical issues. The Bayview Village Association also hosts a number of events throughout the year including clean-up days, all-candidates meetings, community fairs, annual perennial swaps, over 50% of Bayview Village residents are members of the Association. Most Bayview Village homes were built between 1954 and 1964, the mix of housing here includes raised and executive ranch style bungalows, split-level houses, and Georgian Revival-style homes. Most of the houses are original, many homes have undergone renovation and landscaping to fit the park-like neighbourhood. There has been increasing infill housing within the Bayview Village area, there also continues to be high rise condominium development along Sheppard Avenue and in the land south of Sheppard Avenue and north of Highway 401. This development is of a different nature to the single-family suburban low-rise architecture found in the northern area. The western edge of the East Don Parklands winds its way through the centre of Bayview Village and is a vast and expansive green haven with various trails, walkways and bicycle paths
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Newtonbrook
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Newtonbrook is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In the 19th century, it was a separate municipality and it is located in the area around Yonge Street and Finch Avenue in the district of North York between the east and west branches of the Don River. North York was a city that was merged with five other municipalities to form the new City of Toronto in 1998, chinese is the second-most spoken language in the area after English. Korean is well behind as the third, together they make up over 40% of the ethnic minorities in the area. The area also has significant Russian and Jewish and Iranian minorities, the average income in the area is above the average for Toronto and a majority of residents live in single detached or semi-detached houses, which they own. As of the end of 2006, Newtonbrook is northernmost area of City of Toronto affected by the infill development, older detached and semi-detached houses from the 1950s are demolished and townhouse complexes are built in their place. There is also a number of new custom built homes in this neighbourhood. A new low-rise condo building had been built on northwest corner of Yonge and it was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century. Newtonbrooks early industries included saw and grist mills on the east and west branches of the Don River, the towns Newton Brook Wesleyan Church was named after Reverend Robert Newton. In 1847, Lieutenant Colonel William S. Durie of The Queens Own Rifles of Canada subdivided part of his Newtonbrook property, the resulting subdivision is now Drewry Avenue. In the 1950s, Newtonbrook was subdivided for a residential development. Most of the landmarks were removed, except for the Newtonbrook Schoolhouse. Just one house from the original Drewry Avenue subdivision remains and it is the birthplace and hometown of Nobel Prize winner and Liberal Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was born at a manse in the intersection of Yonge Street and Hendon Avenue and his father was the local Methodist minister and Lester was born in the parsonage. Saint Agnes Catholic School is a Catholic day on Otonabee Avenue and it hosts approximately 258 students, in four portables, and a main building complex. Known for hosting the biggest number of teams in the Toronto District School Board. Finch Bus Terminal, located across from the station, serves GO Transit regional buses, York Region Transit. Newtonbrook History Newtonbook history and map Newtonbrook United Church
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North York City Centre
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North York City Centre, sometimes known as Downtown North York, is a central business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the district of North York. The area along Yonge Street, between Sheppard and Finch Avenues, was chosen by Mel Lastman, former mayor of North York, an official plan by the former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto encouraged high-density commercial and residential developments in the area. The city centre is served by North York Centre station, while Sheppard-Yonge and Finch stations are located south and north of the area. The North York Civic Centre and Mel Lastman Square, on the west side of Yonge Street, are central to the area, empress Walk is a shopping mall. The station serves Earl Haig Secondary School, North York Central Library, and the Toronto Centre for the Arts are all located in the area
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