Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs has outlined its Toronto Tomorrow masterplan to turn a parcel of the city's waterfront into the "neighbourhood of the future".
Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent company, unveiled the updated proposal for Sidewalk Toronto in its Master Innovation & Development Plan (MIDP).
Released 18 months after the team first announced plans to develop a high-tech "future city" on Toronto's waterfront, the proposal consolidates a number of the design details that Sidewalk Labs has unveiled over the past year and a half.
The company has stripped-back its initial ambition to overhaul the entire eastern waterfront. Instead now focusing on creating two neighbourhoods in the city ? Quayside and the western part of Villiers Island, which make up just seven per cent of the larger lakeside site. The Toronto Tomorrow plan by Sidewalk Labs aims to encourage the use of outdoor space, including the Keating Channel
The two sites will be used to pilot a suite of ideas that the team has unveiled for the project. The intention is to scale these across a broader area known as the Innovative Development and Economic Acceleration (IDEA) District, which would cover one-third of the eastern waterfront.
"This proposal aims to do something extraordinary on Toronto's eastern waterfront: create the neighbourhood of the future in the right kind of way, with people at its centre, and with cutting edge-technology and forward-thinking urban design...