Danish landscape studio SLA is among the designers of a neighbourhood on an island in Toronto 's Port Lands district, set to advance after receiving the all-clear from planning officials in the city.

The latest piece in Toronto's multipronged waterfront redevelopment , Ookwemin Minising – or "place of the black cherry trees" – covers 98 acres in total, with activated public greenspace and a variety of car-free areas.

SLA and the project's engineering lead GHD are teaming with Ontario-based designers Trophic Design and British architects Allies and Morrison to complete the concept on the formerly industrial site.

The team says its concept, which establishes a pedestrianised identity for the new manmade island at the mouth of the Don River, "reimagines streets as dynamic, living systems that evolve like ecosystems over time".

A team including SLA has designed Ookwemin Minising for Toronto's Port Lands District

It also said the design merges "Scandi-style green liveability, quirky density, and…