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TORONTO: UNDER CONSTRUCTION

We all know it too well: The warmer months in many major North American cities are overtaken by countless construction projects — infrastructure tweaks that divert cars and buses onto clogged detour routes, cacophonous building developments that cloak us in dust. All of it is necessary. Some of it is downright incredible. In Toronto, the undisputed crane capital of North America (current count: 238), the perpetual campaign to retrofit and reimagine the urban realm is giving shape to some of the city’s — and the world’s — boldest developments.

Photographers Ryan Walker and Vid Ingelevics have been documenting one of them for a while now: the renaturalization of the Don

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