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2018 graduate Yuxun Emmeily Zhang's thesis, Spaces for Economic Diversity won the Award of Merit in the Student Category of the 2019 Toronto Urban Design Awards.
The 2019 jury praised Zhang's submission. "This research and design proposal argues that the City of Toronto's employment zones are shrinking and under significant development pressure because they have been too narrowly defined by zoning bylaws and that by allowing only very specific uses, employment areas haven't served the diverse range of productive activities that Toronto residents could otherwise benefit from. The author explores how this may have created a physical and social divide for Toronto's populations and proposes to alter the current zoning map with an "Overlay for Economic Diversity." This new layer would make it possible to develop new employment opportunities in currently unused spaces between employment zones and residential areas, making employment zones more accessible to a range of different people and different scales of operation. Spaces for Economic Diversity is a thoughtful and provocative proposal for how we might reimagine work and life in the city."
Zhang's thesis Supervisor was Adrian Blackwell and Committee member was Lola Sheppard.
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View the 2019 winning projects.
Waterloo Architecture
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
N1S 2H4
architecture@uwaterloo.ca
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The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Office of Indigenous Relations.