SEDRD led PlazaPOPS project is profiled in the Toronto Star and Spacing

WexPOPS, a SEDRD-created community gathering place that ‘popped up’ in the Wexford Heights Plaza in Scarborough this summer, was mentioned in a recent Toronto Star article entitled, "How turning parking spaces into tiny parks could ease Toronto's public space shortage." The article discusses the value of converting parking space to park space with case studies from Toronto and San Francisco and announces a new parklet bylaw that the City of Toronto will be enacting this fall. 

The Spacing magazine published an article last week summarizing the project, including the role that U of G MLA students played in the community design process.

WexPOPS is the first pilot project of the plazaPOPS initiative, which evolved out of Daniel Rotsztain’s MLA thesis in 2018 and is co-led by Daniel and Landscape Architecture Prof. Brendan Stewart and Karen Landman.

The photos below are from the WexPops initiative at Wexford Heights Plaza in Scarborough.  

Images courtesy of Brendan Stewart and Kat Rizza.