571 Tower Road. Google Maps, July 2009, https://maps.app.goo.gl/F5dMwHE9AuE6qrsr7.
576 Tower Road. Google Maps, August 2011, https://maps.app.goo.gl/7pfjpysLtfsADZF9A.
Intention to Designate Under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act, City of Toronto, 14 May 2013, www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2013/pb/bgrd/backgroundfile-58653.pdf.
“ISSUE BACKGROUND: A recently announced decision to redevelop the University of Toronto Back Campus as two field hockey pitches for the Pan Am games has created a large public expression of interest in preserving the space as a grassed common. A community group formed of University of Toronto faculty and students, as well as members of the surrounding residential areas has submitted a request for designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act of the Back Campus as a cultural heritage landscape, for contextual, historical associations and ongoing traditional activities associated with the space.”
Lucas Oleniuk / Toronto Star.
Ackerman, Alan. “Opinion | U of T Back Campus Is No Place for Plastic Grass.” Toronto Star, 8 June 2013, www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/u-of-t-back-campus-is-no-place-for-plastic-grass/article_7bfaefc9-47a5-5624-9c2f-780727e91e1e.html.
A rendering of the proposed project.
Hume, Christopher. “Artificial Turf at U of T Will Make the Field like a Bouquet of Plastic Flowers.” Toronto Star, 7 June 2013, www.thestar.com/entertainment/artificial-turf-at-u-of-t-will-make-the-field-like-a-bouquet-of-plastic/article_2abce31a-3c48-5b21-96c5-3c930fa1cfa3.html.
“Local councillor Adam Vaughan has asked City Council to designate the site a cultural heritage landscape, and in that way save it from desecration. That decision will be made next week.”
“Perfect Pitches.” B+H Architects, bharchitects.com/en/project/the-back-campus-fields/.
“For the Toronto 2015 Pan Am | Parapan Am Games, B+H oversaw the transformation of grass playing fields at the University of Toronto’s central St. George Campus into the first two international-calibre field hockey playing fields in Ontario.”