and speculation. Tree City is therefore a plan for attainable growth rather than a proposal to create extensive bulk. By forgoing costly buildings in order to dedicate funds for

landscaping, Tree City sacrifices the static in order to save what can grow.

Tree City assumes the park’s suburban context to be its virtue. The locale offers an ideal opportunity to explore the unrealized promises of low density metropolitan life. Long notorious for its predictability and deathly uniformity, the suburb now has the potential to function as a playground for the urban population to unwind. Tree City’s landscaped clusters are programmed for various leisure activities. Adopting the criss-cross figure of the existing runway, Tree City’s clusters are complemented with 1000 crossing paths to be used by

cyclists, joggers and pedestrians. Its amalgamated landscape will offer a green destination within Toronto’s expanding core, making Downsview a counterpart to the Downtown.