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Don Mills is a new town and neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its name refers to its location between the East and West Don River valleys, and the fact that several grist mills were operating in this part of the Don Valley during the 1800s. A New town or planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ...
Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength City of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas Location. ...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English, French (in some areas) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 106 24 Area - Total - % water Ranked 4th 1,076,395...
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Don Mills is recognized as the first planned and fully integrated post-war community developed by private enterprise in North America. It is credited with being the blueprint for post-war suburban development in Toronto and contemporary residential neighbourhoods. Its design was influenced by Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, and by the principles of two American town planners, Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, who developed the garden city community of Radburn, New Jersey. The Don Mills project was designed by a young urban planner, Macklin Hancock, who had studied at Harvard and who envisioned a self-contained community distinguished by consistent design principles and a modernist style. It was financed by well-known businessman E.P. Taylor, who had acquired 8.35 square kilometres land in the area. Taylor saw the development as a lucrative business opportunity. He was right, as Don Mills became an immediate critical and commercial success, and was imitated in suburban developments across Canada. Ebenezer Howard (1850 - 1928) was a prominent British urban planner. ...
The Garden city movement was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in England in 1898 as an approach to urban planning. ...
Clarence Stein (1882 - 1975) was a U.S. architect and city planner. ...
Map of Radburn, New Jersey Radburn is an unincorporated new town in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, which was founded in 1929 as a town for the motor age. ...
Edward Plunket Taylor, born January 29, 1901 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - died May 14, 1989 in Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas, was a business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. ...
The design of Don Mills was based on five planning principles, which had not been implemented in Canada before. The first was the neighbourhood principle, which broke down the community into four neighbourhood quadrants, all surrounding a regional shopping centre. Each quadrant was to contain a school, a church, and a park.
The second concept was the separation of pedestrian and vehicle traffic, which was accomplished through the creation of a network of pedestrian paths providing easy access through parks to area schools and the town centre, while roads were designed to slow vehicular traffic through the use of winding roads, T-intersections, and cul-de-sacs.
The third concept was the promotion of Modernist architecture and the Modern aesthetic. Don Mills Development controlled the architectural design, colours, and materials of all buildings in Don Mills. As well, the corporation insisted that builders use company-approved architects, who had been educated according to Bauhaus principles, to prevent the project from deteriorating into a typical post-war subdivision of builder's homes. Modernism is an artistic and cultural movement that generally includes progressive art and architecture, music and literature emerging in the decades before 1914, as artists rebelled against late 19th century academic and historicist traditions. ...
The Bauhaus Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. ...
The fourth concept was the creation of a greenbelt linked to a system of neighbourhood parks that would preserve the beauty of the surrounding ravines.
The final concept was the integration of industry into the community, which followed Howard's ideals for the Garden City. Planners felt that it was important for residents to live and work in the same satellite town so that Don Mills would not become a bedroom community. A sizeable number of high residential densities -- rental townhouses and low-rise apartments -- was essential if the town were to attract a cross-section of residents working in local industries. Today, Don Mills is home to Global Television, Rogers Communications, and Celestica. The local high school is Don Mills Collegiate Institute. Global Television is an Australian independent television production facility, responsible for producing many Australian TV series such as Australian Idol, Big Brother, Hi-5, MTV Australias Total Request Live, Neighbours, Rove Live and the former TV show, Good Morning Australia as GMA With Bert Newton. ...
Rogers Communications Inc. ...
Celestica Inc. ...
Don Mills Collegiate Institute is the local high school in the community of Don Mills in Toronto. ...
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