Justin Podur Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Tue, 12 May 2026 17:56:16 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 From Rubble to Refuge: Advancing sustainability of the Leslie Street Spit /euc/research-spotlight/from-rubble-to-refuge-advancing-sustainability-of-the-leslie-street-spit/ Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:13:00 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=2956 The Leslie Street Spit is a 500-hectare construction waste dump that also functions as an ecologically rich urban landscape feature. Since the 1950s, trucks have been depositing construction waste along this narrow landform, to the point where it now extends 5 kilometers from downtown Toronto into Lake Ontario.   Due to the site’s auspicious location […]

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