Exploring Toronto's Inner-Frontier
Abstract:
Urban spaces unceasingly witness the cycle of their birth and death. Like the waves of an ocean repeatedly crashing into and withdrawing from the shoreline, the city’s sphere of production and human activity consume our environment, only to abandon it in s ubsequence, leaving behind, in a state of ruin, vestiges of civilization, waiting to be reinvigorated again by those who deem it useful and those who wish to capitalize by it. Toronto’s innercity terrain vague, i.e. its far stretching laneway system, is o n the brink of being “reinvigorated” through continual development. As laneway houses populate the backspaces of residential neighborhoods and the city’s marginal areas transform into spaces with designated functions, which in turn reestablishes them as a part of the ‘official city’ and makes them increasingly subject to the demands of commerce, innercity streets will no longer exist as terrain vague open to opportunities of potentially transgressive expression, gathering, and resistance. This thesis w ill explore, and document Toronto’s often overlooked, terrain vague residential laneways through photography, mapping and drawing. This would be done for the purpose of bringing attention to the Toronto’s innerinspire change in their perception and value.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
Supervisor:
Rick
Andrighetti
Committee
member:
Marie-Paule
Macdonald
Internal-external
reader:
Val
Rynnimeri
External: Kara
Burman
The
defence
examination
will
take
place:
Tuesday,
April
11,
2023,
2:30
p.m.
This
will
be
taking
place
in
person
in
Ventin
seminar
room
ARC
2026
at
the
School
of
Architecture.
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.