Vaughan’s downtown transformation: MES students reimagine the suburbs

On April 8th, urban design students presented their ideas in support of Vaughan’s planned metropolitan centre, which is to be transformed from a large-scale big box landscape to a subway-oriented downtown.

The idea of a resort-style model organized around a multi-themed park at the subway entrance was particularly compelling. The group also underscored the need to tame Highway 7 through the creation of a multi-way boulevard and provided several precedents (see also http://www.futureofbothell.com/projects/185th-connector-and-park as perhaps the newest planned highway-taming in North America).

Transformation presentation: Vaughan Transformation

Public realm and multi-way proposal: VMCprecedentsApr3

About Laura Taylor

I'm an associate professor and graduate planning program coordinator in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. I am a planning consultant, too. This blog is to share my research on the politics of nature and the negotiation of landscape values in the city and city planning, with a keen interest in the urban-rural fringe and exurbia.
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