plazaPOPS, a collaborative research initiative that enhances the public realm through publicly accessible pop-up installations within the privately owned parking lots of commercial strip-malls, has received two significant new grants!
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