Toronto Micro-Atlas
Toronto Micro-Atlas is an independent web publication of Field Guides about noticing and using Toronto. Each guide takes one specific way the city works, where it hides things, what it shows someone paying attention, and builds it into an interactive map with careful editorial research.
Field Guide 01
Hidden Landscapes
Hidden Landscapes documents eight threshold moments where Toronto's orderly street grid suddenly gives way to valleys, ravines, escarpments, and watercourses. Each entry is a specific place, a specific crossing, and a specific reason to look twice at what the city is built on top of.
Open the Field GuideUnder observation
- Farmers Markets
- A rotating atlas of Toronto's outdoor markets, mapped by neighbourhood and season.
- Quiet Third Places
- The libraries, reading rooms, lobbies, and garden corners where the city allows you to sit still.
- Shade and Cooling
- Where to find cover on a hot day: a taxonomy of trees, awnings, tunnels, and water in the urban surface.