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Making the Wilderness
9 September 2024
Making the Wilderness
Tiffany Kaewen Dang on the hidden histories of Canadian national parks
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Nature reorganized
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
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14 February 2010 , 3pm
Peter Galison: Waste-Wilderness
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Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
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PH2018:0012
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Special edition 264 page bound book titled 'An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto's Natural Parklands' published by ECW Press, Toronto, 2017. With editioned pigment inkjet print titled 'An Enduring Wilderness: black locust among sumacs, Sylvan Park, 2013' book ed. 24/40, print ed. 4/20 An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands is a series commissioned in 2012 by the City of Toronto that chronicles the extensive ravine network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and an expansive shoreline of Toronto, which has historically been overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, questioning their role in a diverse and growing twenty-first century city.
2017
An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto's Natural Parklands
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PH2018:0012
Description:
Special edition 264 page bound book titled 'An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto's Natural Parklands' published by ECW Press, Toronto, 2017. With editioned pigment inkjet print titled 'An Enduring Wilderness: black locust among sumacs, Sylvan Park, 2013' book ed. 24/40, print ed. 4/20 An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands is a series commissioned in 2012 by the City of Toronto that chronicles the extensive ravine network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and an expansive shoreline of Toronto, which has historically been overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, questioning their role in a diverse and growing twenty-first century city.
PH1993:0285
1991
PH2018:0011:002
2013
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2013
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