About

My name is Trevor Heywood. I started spending many weekends hiking across different corners of Toronto in 2014. My travels started retracing faint childhood memories in Toronto’s amazing ravine system. But they also started traversing into the urban cores, local neighbourhoods, vacant areas, utility corridors, and the other spaces.

I began taking pictures during my walks and sharing them on social media. By 2016, this began transitioning from aimless dives through open spaces to dedicated documentation of natural systems and built corridors. This became the basis for Metroscapes.

Metroscapes is a site where you can find a record of the walking environment in a city. I trace creeks existing and lost, soaking in nature and highlighting the barriers. I travel ravines and lakeshores to capture the water’s edge and mark where you’re pushed from it. I parallel highways, railways and utility corridors to highlight the connections and flag the barriers.

Toronto is where this all started, but it has since expanded to the Greater Golden Horseshoe. It’s a source for everything about where our natural and built environments collide.

If you have any suggestions for future walks, information to add about past walks, or any general questions and comments, please feel free to get in touch.

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