Playgrounds have always reflected our values and understanding of childhood. Now they reflect the designs of kids, too.

M. Paul Friedberg, who brought play to landscape design, dies at 93 He reimagined the city playground as a place of climbable shapes and fanciful passageways. February 20, 2025 ...

In 1974 upon the opening of Harbourfront, a professor of landscape design from the University of Toronto named Bill Rock had pitched the concept of a “Junk Playground” to be created at the ...

The playground opened in 1992 during the city's 300-year birthday party — hence the tricentennial moniker. It cost between $350,000 to $400,000 to build, ...