Iqra Naqvi

Reconnecting Stories

The Scarborough Bluffs are a unique landscape in the middle of an urban core with limited accessibility and broken connections. The surrounding neighbourhoods have been developed over time with different systems of circulation that facilitate fast and slow movement. How can landscape architecture create systems that bridge broken links in landscape, history, and culture? This thesis advances a design proposal that enhances existing fragmented systems of movement and introduces paths that bridge broken connections and connect to a larger system. Along with circulation, this design provides a potential for creating coastal habitat and managing landscape issues, such as runoff.

Advisor: Megan Esopenko Winter 2021