Mark Osbaldeston explores 200 years of significant but unrealized building, planning, and transit schemes.
Marvel at the sweeping vista down Memorial Avenue as you enjoy a concert in Hamilton’s escarpment amphitheatre. Drive up the Gage Street tunnel, or ride down the Ottawa Street incline. Perhaps
you’ll take in the sights at the King’s Forest Zoo, or gaze at the stars at the city’s downtown planetarium.
Mark Osbaldeston, author of the award-winning Unbuilt Toronto books, turns his attention to The Ambitious City, uncovering significant but unrealized building, planning, and
transportation proposals from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Featuring 150 archival illustrations, plans, and photographs, this book gives life to the Hamilton that
might have been.
