TEXTS

A Revaluation of Public Space in Toronto (1955-2005)

Paper presented at the 2009 Anglo-American Conference of Historians : 'Cities'.
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Individuated Space and Assembly

Presented at "City Fragments: Toronto City Form Symposium", University of Waterloo, February 2007.
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Assembly: A Revaluation of Public Space in Toronto

An essay written in parallel to my M.Arch thesis submitted at the University of Waterloo, December 2005.
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Dundas Square : Consumption and Intimacy

Presented as final paper for a course on collective memory, University of Waterloo, 2004.
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The Clean Street Paradox

Winning entry in the 2002 Berkeley Prize Competition. The BPC is an international essay competition focusing on social issues relevant to architecture. The 2002 question addressed the role of the street in fostering social life.
This essay supports the idea that the street is a living thing. That it is metaphorically similar to a being so far as it has a conscious form and an unconscious one. The thesis is a critique of ways cities deal with issues of encouragement and repression of human behaviour directly at street level. The essay was published in ARQ (Architectural Research Quaterly), Cambridge University Press, UK, v.6, n.2, pp. 115-119.
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