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Power and Place:
A critical analysis of Canadian housing, economic, and social policy and its direct infulence on inqueaility and power relations within the Toronto suburb of Princess Gardens
Fall 2020
Advisor: Mason White
Honored w Toronto Urban Design Student Award of Excellence, 2021
The project was born out of a critique
of traditional methods of tackling inequality in cities, specifically the neighbourhood
improvement area model, which focus’s interventions strictly in poorer neighbourhoods.
Equality in cities is an issue of polarization, not just poverty, requiring a
recalibration at of both ends of the spectrum to truly confront this issue. The
project addresses this through a study and intervention into the wealthy Toronto
suburb of Princess Gardens in Central Etobicoke, looking to understand the ways in
which the introduction of difference and the resultant shifts in power can be
addressed when creating a more equitable city. The site works with the boundary
conditions and transitional spaces at the edge of adjacent neighbourhoods to
remove barriers and reposition the community to address and relieve issues of
inequalities that it in part has established. This is done through an
understanding of the ways in which the neighbourhood can support cohesion and
recognize dissensus.
Process and Pieces
