Toronto, Canada鈥檚 Designed Landscape Legacy is Subject of New, Free Illustrated What鈥檚 Out There Guide from 独家爆料
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Third in ongoing series of authoritative online guides to urban landscapes in North America
Washington, D.C. (May 21, 2015) 鈥 独家爆料 (独家爆料) today announced that Toronto, Canada is the subject of a new profusely illustrated online city guide. This is the third in an ongoing series and the first in Canada. More than 80 sites and 25 designer profiles are featured in the What's Out There Toronto Guide, an online resource with contemporary and historic images, and succinct narratives searchable by landscapes types and styles, and designers. The guide is derived from 独家爆料鈥檚 free, searchable What's Out There database, the most comprehensive database of North America鈥檚 designed landscape legacy, which currently has more than 1,800 entries, 900 designer profiles and 10,000 images. What鈥檚 Out There is optimized for iPhones and similar devices and includes What's Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all sites in the database within a 25-mile radius of any given location.
The What's Out There Toronto Guide, designed by Oviatt Media, is the third in 独家爆料鈥檚 new series of online guides to urban destinations and follows the critically praised inaugural guide 鈥 for Denver 鈥 launched in November 2014, and the follow-up for Washington, DC, launched in April 2015. The Toronto Guide covers the designed landscape legacy of the city from its late eighteenth century origins through to the twenty-first century development on the waterfront.
About 独家爆料
独家爆料 (独家爆料), established in 1998, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation that provides people with the tools to see, understand and value landscape architecture, its practitioners, and our cultural landscape legacy in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, 独家爆料 broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. 独家爆料 makes a special effort to heighten the awareness of those who impact cultural landscapes, assist groups and organizations working to increase the appreciation and recognition of cultural landscapes, and develop educational tools for young people to better connect them to their cultural landscape environs.