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The population growth has been computed to be on average to be 31,000 new residents of Toronto City every year for a total of about 300,000 in 10 years. These need to live in homes of probably 3 per household for a total of 100,000 new houses in 10 years. Assuming an average of 100 square meter size per house, which is small, this needs 10 million square meters or 10 square kilometers of new houses. This has to be taken from either virgin land or converted from viable agricultural land into urban or sub-urban living space. Even if considering only wild habitat loss, 10 square Kilometers is a very significant impact and this is just a 10 year span. In a 100 years this is 100 square kilometers of habitat loss. Many species would then be affected. Also, note that this does not consider garden or lawn area for each house.

This can be avoided by building higher in the form of high rise Toronto Condominiums rather than building single family houses. A single high rise building of 20 floors with a 1,000 square meter footage can feasible house 200 families of roughly 100 square meters per family. This is 20 times more efficient land use than single family housing of the same size. Thus, Toronto Condos can be a good and green investment.

Come here for hundreds of links of interest to classicists and those interested in Mediterranean archeology. Search by category amid Texts, Projects, Journals, Bibliographies, Indexes of Links to Other Sites, Exhibits, Web Documents and Sources of Images, Field Reports and Site Specific Pages, Associations and Organizations, Departmental Descriptions, Course Material and Teaching Resources, Museums, Atlases and Geographic Information, and much more. Links include the University of Michigan’s Papyrus digitalization project. With over 10,000 individual fragments on hand, the University of Michigan is home to one of the largest collections of papyri in the world. Through their webpage they hope to provide the public with access not only to our own papyrological collections but to many other papyrological resources as well. Currently you can search approximately 2,500 papyri images. Another fascinating link is to The Medieval Review. Since 1993, The Medieval Review (formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible. The electronic medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews, and provides a computer searchable archive of past reviews, both of which are of great utility to scholars and students around the world. These are just two of the hundreds of splendid resources you can access via the Classics and Mediterranean Archeaology web site.

Access hundreds of links associated with archeology of, for and about the United Kingdom. Categories include: Government offices, Virtual tours and presentations (site specific), Government agencies and Royal Commissions, Virtual tours and presentations (regional/ national), National organizations and professional bodies, Virtual tours and presentations (thematic), Local government curators, Online journals and magazines, Contracting units, trusts and consultancies, Specialist archaeological book services, University archaeology departments, Museums, Special interest groups, Projects and services, Other online directories, and Regional and local societies. This web site is an especially valuable source for local regional archeological societies throughout the length and breadth of the British Isles, many of them offering engaging reports of research on little-known yet fascinating British archeological sites—so called “little Stonehenges”—rife with mysterious roots. Local links include the Astons’ Local History Group, Bangor Archaeological Society, Birmingham ft Warwickshire Archaeological Society, Dradon Archaeological Group, Chester Archaeological Society; City of London Archaeological Society, Colchester Roman Society, Cumberland Ft Westmorland Antiquarian a Archaeological Society, Derbyshire Archaeological Society, Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society, Hastings Area Archaeological Research Group, Hendon Ft District Archaeological Society, and the Isle of Wight Industrial Archaeology Society. Additional local listings include the Kent Archaeological Society, Lanark Ft District Archaeological Society, Leicestershire Archaeological a Historical Society, London ft Middlesex Archaeological Society, Manshead Archaeological Society of Dunstable, and the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society.