Port Lands Walk

Join Advancing Equity in Landscape Architecture (AELA) for a insightful walk through the emerging open spaces of the Port Lands exploring sustainable placemaking and climate resilience.

Join guide, Shannon Baker, for a stroll along the newly shaped mouth of the Don River and the Port Lands Flood Protection and Enabling Infrastructure (PLFP) project. This project will transform nearly 30 hectares of industrial brownfields into a naturalized, multi-outlet river valley system, while unlocking the area for revitalization and facilitate billions of dollars in investment. PLFP will improve quality of life, bring nature back to an underused industrial site, and better protect Toronto's downtown from extreme weather conditions. This tour will highlight the major project elements related to sustainable placemaking that combine to make the PLFP project one of the most significant changes to the Lake Ontario shoreline in decades, and one of largest infrastructure projects in Canada.