What is a Park?
The Importance of Public + Open Space
In a rapidly changing climate, Canadian cities will see drastic environmental conditions, such as increased pollution, groundwater contamination and warmer and wetter weather.
Public and open spaces are essential to urban resiliency, but these assests are inequitably distributed across Toronto. Tower neighborhoods are disproportionately impacted, leaving the city unequitably resilient.
The drastic range in size, program, topography and vegetation of parks necessitates their classification into typologies to facilitate interpretation of the specific ecological and social functions that they provide.
The following typological analysis compares the program, permeability and ground cover of these parks to better understand how they are serving the surrounding communities.
Team: Fadi Masoud (PI), Karen Smith, Oya Mercan, Blake Poland, John Robinson, Paul Kushner, Imara Rolston
Research Assistants: Ambika Pharma, Louisa Kennett, Ruiqui Zhao, Alex Sheinbaum, Tina Cui, Nadia Chan, Yue Wang
This project is funded by the Mayflower Research Fund and the University of Toronto - School of Cities.
Research Assistants: Ambika Pharma, Louisa Kennett, Ruiqui Zhao, Alex Sheinbaum, Tina Cui, Nadia Chan, Yue Wang
This project is funded by the Mayflower Research Fund and the University of Toronto - School of Cities.
