Treaty City: Revealing Toronto’s Storied Past in the Contemporary Urban Landscape

This paper explored the history and relevance of treaties in Toronto’s contemporary urban landscape and proposed a design project that captures the spirit of Indigenous place-making, while also encouraging non-Indigenous city dwellers to engage with their own reality as treaty people.

This paper was the result of a class with Professor Larry Harder at the University of Guelph.

Dynamic Transit

Dynamic Transit (DT) was the topic of my undergraduate honours thesis in 2014. DT is a platform that lets transit riders 'order' a ride on their smartphone or tablet. In turn, a shuttle would  come pick up the passenger from their front door and bring them to the local transit hub. Metrolinx co-sponsored my research, and implemented a DT pilot project in Milton, ON.

Undergraduate thesis advisor: Jean Andrey, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo.

See my full thesis here.

See Metrolinx’s pilot results here.