Following the Annual General Meeting of ACO Toronto there will be a free public lecture. 

Main Street as Old Growth Forest uses analogies from the environmental conservation movements and ecology to describe the value of our rapidly disappearing Main Streets, their types, states, complexity, diversity. Main Streets that are still the retail core of their communities (steady state) are compared to those in decline or rehabilitated through preservation.

Catherine Nasmith is a practicing architect, president of the ACO Toronto Branch, publisher of Built Heritage News, and Ontario governor for Heritage Canada The National Trust. A Jane Jacobs Prize winner (2010). she has been observing Main Streets since the 1980’s.