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DUNDAS AND JARVIS NEIGHBOURHOOD AREA STUDY
P4 DUNDAS STREET BIKE LANES
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PARKDALE NEIGHBOURHOOD ANALYSIS & COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT
OUELLETTE AVENUE REHABILITATION PROPOSAL
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ROBINSON HILL SECONDARY PLAN PROPOSAL
P22 ARTSCAPE
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City of Toronto: Urban Design Guidelines
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COATSWORTH ST WINDEYER LANE
VERNER LANE
BERKELEY ST
CALGIE LANE
HAGAN LANE
OAK OSKENONTON LANE
CALLAGHAN LANE CALLAGHAN LANE
SHERBOURNE ST
PARLIAMENT ST
POULETT ST
BERKELEY ST
MILAN ST
ONTARIO ST
NIGHTHAWK LANE
SEATON ST
WINDEYER LANE
ST DAVID ST PEMBROKE ST
GEORGE ST
JARVIS ST
MUTUAL ST
WINDEYER LANE
BOND ST
CHURCH ST
DALHOUSIE ST
VICTORIA STREET LANE
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NIGHTHAWK LANE
ANNA HILLIARD LANE
SHERBOURNE ST
BERKELEY ST
SEATON ST
QUEEN ST E YONGE ST
ST ENOCHS SQ
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HAGAN LANE
VICTORIA ST
OKEEFE LANE
SHUTER ST
RAMSAY LANE
Dundas and Jarvis Neighbourhood Study QUEEN ST E
HORTICULTURAL AVE
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VERNER LANE
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SHUTER ST
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SEATON ST
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WOODWARD EVANS LANE
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DROVERS LANE DROVERS LANE
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WOODWARD EVANS LANE
SHERBOURNE ST
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THE NEIGHBOURHOOD BUILT FORM PERSPECTIVES
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Over the course of first year studio, the focus of study was the Dundas and Jar vis neighbourhood. The top right 3- dimensional model of the site - formulated through the use of AutoCAD and SketchUP was made to display the depth of the site from Jar vis to Sherbourne Street. The model provides an understanding for the density and built gradience within the neighbourhood as well as displays both built forms, floor levels, and roadway figurations. Below the site model is a a section elevation spanning from Jar vis to Sherbourne, cutting across the neighbourhood from the east to the west. The section was utilized to display both green and public spaces, the ver tical scale of the builtform, streetlife, and grey infrastrcuture.
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DUNDAS AND SHERBOURNE PEDESTRRIAN LIFE
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Below are renderings of the street life within the east Dundas neighbourhood. To the right is a night rendering of George Street along Dundas and to the left is the Dundas and Sherbourne intersection. The images were a par t of a first year studio project to display the human scale within the area of study. Through rendering the buildings within the neighbourhood and leaving the structures blank , the streetlife and public realm is made the focal point of the visuals. These renderings are meant to emphasize pedestrian life while still regarding the scale of the built form in relation.
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OPEN SPACES: PAVED VS GREEN
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As a spatial analysis of the area study, I focused on available green spaces in contrast to major park ing lots along Jar vis between Dundas and Gerard Street. The diagram to the left is a conceptual map of therelationship between the elements, utilizing David Lynch’s concepts. Parks can be seen through organic circular shapes, while, in direct contrast to these natural spaces are the rigid geometric figures and symbols representing large park ing lots and underutilized constructed spaces.
NEIGHBOURHOOD PEDESTRIAN LIFE This aerial view of Dundas and Jar vis displays the street life within the major intersection as well as the environmental and developed elements characterizing the space. Although, Dundas and Jar vis is an ar terial and collector roadway intersection, pedestrians and c yclists still maintain an equally noticable presence. Therefore, by incorporating bike lanes within the neighbourhood, active transpor tation would become a safe and appealing mode of transpor tation to residents. This alternative will aid in mak ing the city a more accessible and green city.
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DUNDAS AND JARVIS BIKE LANE DESIGNS
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After numerous site visits and area studies within the dense and ar terial community, the need for spaces fostering safe active transpor tation was notable. Therefore , for the final study of the East Dundas neighbourhood, I proposed a design for a seperated bike lane system.
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This axonometric displays the bike lanes cut into a por tion of the exisitng roadway infrasturcture. This would leave roughly two meters for c yclists and additional space for a curb and street trees separating the bike lane from vehicular traffic. By introducing safe active transpor tation and greener y along the street, pedestrian life has a greater potential to flourish as well as foster a more accessible neighbourhood within the city. With active transporation raising in popularity, the Dundas and Jar vis area would be a reinvented hub within the city core.
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Open Spaces
PARKDALE NEIGHBOURHOOD ANALYSIS
Built Forms
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During second year studio, an analysis of Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood was under taken. Parkdale is located west of the downtown core and houses a mixture of tenure, as well as, affordable housing units. Referencing Jane Jacobs, we made multiple visits to the neighbourhood to gather information on the built and public realm. The layered mapping on page 16 displays the built network; layering roadways, buildings, and parkways. The adjacent images exhibit the social life within the neighbourhood. Facing encroachment from the surrounding downtown Toronto development, the neighbourhood local shops and affordable housing is slowly being outpriced and experiencing gentrification. The welcoming streetlife, pubic ar t, parks, proximity to the city core, and specialty shops are attracting new residents and development, which is having alternate effects on local life.
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OUELLETTE AVENUE REHABILITATION PROPOSAL
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As an introduction to the Urban and Regional Planning program, the first year project was to explain what inspired us to pursue the planning profession. The Ouellette Avenue Rehabilitation was a mock revitilization project I rendered and proposed, answering what initially spurred my intrest in the field of urban planning. The proposal was to revamp the long cement slab sidewalks along the major downtown Windsor roadway into a welcoming public space. Ouellette Avenue acts as the entrance to and out of the city of Windsor, therefore, the project is necessar y to upkeep infrastructure and attract new residents to the city and the downtown core. This wave of pedestrian life would not only make the area more appealling but also have a positive impact on struggling local businesses within the community.
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ROBINSON HILL SECONDARY PLAN 22
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Four th year studio focused on developing a secondar y plan and justification for a greenfield site located in nor th Mark ham. Our studio group under took extensive research of all applicable documents to the site governing its development ensuring consistencey and conformity with provincial and municipal plans and policies. The above landuse map displays the higher densities encouraged by the Growth Plan’s density and jobs per hectare calculations as well as Mark ham’s OP targets. The plan also ack nowledges the exisiting suburbs and infrastructure surounding the site and compliments their forms - increasing density within the site along collector roadways creating a seamless gradient.
LAND USE AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
The landuse map also addresses the allocation of a community focal point fostering mixed-use midrise development in red, community ammenity lands in blue, and mixed-use office priority lands in purple. The above community structure map displays local schools in blue nodes and community hubs in yellow nodes. Based on Mark ham’s OP, the amount of schools and community spaces needed are calculated per density, which helped to determine their locations within the landuse and community structure maps.
The above tranpor tation connectivety map displays the local bus routes and rapid transit to cater to the site. Through an understanding of Mark ham’s Transporation Plans and the exisiting bus routes - in purple - it was decided to create a connected route of transit throughout the proposed collector roads to the exisiting transit lines. Transit stops are identified as nodes within the route.
GREEN SPACE AND TRANSPORATION CONNECTIVITEY
The Greenway Connectivety map represents all trails, green spaces, natural protected lands, and undevelopable flood plains. In light green are corridors and the darker green represents the larger greenway system. Multi-modal hubs and trails are represented by the red indicators and heritage buildings are in black. The majority of the site is ecologically protect lands and flood plains, therefore, respecting the natural spaces within the site and meeting density targets was a complex component of theproject.
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ARTSCAPE
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Ar tscape was a client based studio work ing with a not-for-profit organization in Toronto. Being an organization rooted in suppor ting local ar tists and creatives, the project was to address the struggle of covering operating costs as an event space and to transition one of their sites into a local music venue. In order to develop multiple business models and a thorough terms of reference for the organization, extensive research of the site was under taken. An interim repor t was presented to the client providing an over view of the significant research completed; discussing the developer, demographics, by-laws, zoning, similar case studies, industr y exper t inter views, and O fficial Plans and legal documents. Based on the research applicable to the site, it was discovered that zoning amendments and by-laws favoured the transition as well as the City of Toronto’s OP. However, inter views and case studies proved that functioning as solely a music venue was not sustainable. Additonally, it was found that the neighbourhood holds significant heritage value, as the venue is placed where thousands of Irish immigrants fought and died from sick nesses upon arrival to Canada. Therefore, the City of Toronto has begun plans to construct a park directly infront of the venue in memor y of those who died. With all research considered, two business model options - which could be used seperately or combined - and general recommendations were presented in a final presentation and repor t to the clients and students.
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The first model was the transition to a music venue, in which obtaining specific licensing, by-law conformity, and maintaining respect for the park were recommended. The second model was to elevate their current use as an event space. The model recommends the site combine music functions with their current events to optimize their revenue as well as incorporate more daytime use of the space. Filling the venue with cafes, galleries, etc would cater to the demographic in the area as well as use the space during its down time. The general recommendations were highly encouraged by our studio group for the client to follow regardless of the model chosen. The recommedations are to consult industr y exper ts, foster relationships with local businesses, utilize wayfinding to attract foot traffic into the space, and lastly to apply for governemnt grants. The renderings at the top of the page were made to create a visual of the scale of the memorial park infront of the space once constructed. The parkette design was to provide ideas of attracting pedestrian life to the venue and utilize the BIA’s plans to revitalize the public realm in the neighbourhood. Lastly, the night rendering depicts the possibility of a movable par tition to control crowd movement into and out of the venue, respecting the somber nature of the memorial park.
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URBAN DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR TORONTO LANEWAYS
The final four th year studio project was developing Urban Design Guidelines to activate laneways within Toronto. The studio group - myself included - worked under the guidance of Dr. Shelagh McCar tney and The Laneway Project to write the final guidelines document as well as present our finished product to the City of Toronto’s Planning Depar tment. Best practices found from case studies were applied to Toronto’s context and visualized through site plans, cross-sections, 3D massings and perspectives. I was responsible researching the city of Seattle, creating Pilot Area site plans demonstrating our applied guidelines and for creating the final presentation.
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