Future Toronto

Love this Future Toronto illustration by Mathew Borrett - an exploration of Toronto after a century or two of hard knocks for Spacing's 10th anniversary issue:



"I imagined it set 150 to 200 years from now. I didn’t decide on any one catastrophe having occured, but perhaps a long period of general instability and decay followed by the beginnings of a renewal. Obviously some kind of climate change has occurred, though not of a nature expected by science. A lot of people have understandably commented that the illustration is about global warming and rising ocean levels. However, Lake Ontario rising 30 feet is not considered a plausible climate change scenario. Honestly, it’s just a fictional conceit that looks cool and opened up some fun possibilities for me to play with."





Worth checking them out much bigger on Mathew's Flickr photostream