/ The Healthy City

Since 2019 pandemic has struck our lives and changed our living styles. An increasing number of research indicates that people who live with pre-existing chronic disease will tend to have severe illness and mortality to Covid. We are obviously not prepared to face this sudden epidemic, and many people even lost their lives as a result. So, what and how can we prepare to confront the next health crisis?

Most chronic disease are related to two main reasons: exercise and healthy food access. Among those influential factors, food security is one of the major concerns in the Toronto region. And due to the effect of the pandemic, food access became a more serious situation for neighborhoods that were already having difficulty accessing food. According to news, Toronto is also facing issues for healthy food distribution. For example, neighborhoods in Scarborough are having limited access to food.

Collaborator: Kuan-Yi Chiang, Yiying Wu

Location: Scarborough, Toronto

Professors: Megan Esopenko, Fadi Masoud, Rob Wright

Project Annual/ Level: Sep-Dec, 2021. MLA

Integrated Urbanism Studio Design