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This figure-ground diagram address the town square area in the Village of Yorkville Park in the city of Toronto, Canada. The neighbourhood is located between Avenue Road, Bloor Street West, and Bay Street. The surrounding area includes commercial buildings, luxury retail stores, restaurants, and the Royal Ontario Museum. The circled area is the city block of Yorkville Park, which is a tranquil place hidden inside one of the most vibrant commercial places in Toronto.
This aerial view depicts the city block between Bellair Street, Cumberland Street, Critchley Lane, and Bloor Street West. The highlighting building on the left side is a mixed-use/residential structure with a courtyard terrace on the third floor, while the building on the right side is a mixed-use structure with 18 residential storeys. These two buildings both face Bloor Street West on the south side and connect to the Yorkville town square on the north side.
In this Plan Oblique drawing, the thinner dashed lines show the pedestrian circulation, while the thicker lines address the vehicular circulation. The dense dashed lines show the Bloor street West behind the two buildings, and the long thin dashed lines zoned the low-rises townhouses in front of Yorkville Park.
The pedestrian circulation illustrates the narrow lane in between the two buildings that only allow pedestrians to access. This lane makes people step into another quiet atmosphere immediately from the hustled Bloor street, leading them to Yorkville park.
This Actor-Network map traces the history of the Village of Yorkville Park from the past to the present. The Park was constructed between 1992 to 1994. The Yorkville area is designated to the greater area from Bloor Street West and Avenue Road to the end near the Summerhill and the Rosedale. The Yorkville park is designed with a series of gardens reflecting the diverse Canadian landscape. It contains greenery areas, a set of metal archways, a marshy wetland, a silver-coloured metal structure with a waterfall, a courtyard filled with niches and chairs, and the Yorkville Rock. The rock is a 650-tonne hunk of billion-year-old granite. The connection from transportation to commercial space in between the gardens also show the recreation and the new urban lifestyle.
