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Title Climate change effects: A vision for downtown Toronto

Excerpt The team developed a recommendations report outlining infrastructure retrofitting priorities in areas such as clean energy, decentralized energy grids, and water management to strengthen urban resilience.

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Students Sariah Hurd, Manjula Bhandari, Elaine Zhou, Mai-Yin Johnston, Igal Cano Shor, Anouk de Gouvell

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SDGs Climate ActionSustainable Cities and Communities

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Title Finding a Home in a Changing World: Evaluating Canada’s Ability to House and Support Climate Migrants through Sustainable Housing Development

Excerpt This paper includes a literature review on migration trends and evaluates provincial and municipal policies that address housing regulations and development. It identifies areas in the city that fall under the “inclusionary zoning” framework to determine where affordable housing can be built in a sustainable manner in accordance with TransformTO’s guidelines. A jurisdictional scan of […]

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Title Rerouting the TCS Toronto Waterfront marathon

Excerpt Aims to redesign the route for the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon to reduce traffic congestion, emissions, and improve economic impact on local businesses. The team used GIS analysis and developed an analytical framework to evaluate and optimize route prototypes.

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Students Hoi Ying Crystal Chu, Spencer Bezruki, Jia Hao, Choo, Cody Wang, Joshua Der

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SDGs Climate ActionDecent Work and Economic GrowthSustainable Cities and Communities

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Title The effect of urbanization on the operational sex ratio of Rhamphomyia longicauda

Excerpt The project studied the effect of urban conditions on sexual selection for metabolically expensive traits and how cities might shape male and female evolution.

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Students Dominik Jaworski

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SDGs Life on Land

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Title Space and needs assessment for Ward 9 cultural organizations

Excerpt In partnership with the Community and Cultural Spaces Trust (CCST), this project addresses the displacement of arts and cultural organizations in Toronto’s Ward 9. Students developed and conducted a survey to assess local space needs and created a dashboard for visualizing results.

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Students Maria Fares, Menglin Guo, Yan Lu Lau, Jia Jun Li, Mengze Zhang

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Title Powering the Way to Sustainability: Inequality in Toronto’s Housing and Energy Initiatives

Excerpt This paper focuses on the ways income inequality in the City of Toronto has left marginalised groups behind when it comes to TransformTO’s sustainability efforts and examines ways these groups can be included in future transitions to ensure equitable access and the success of TransformTO itself.

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Students Julia Da Conceicao, Ayaka Kimata, Ema Popovic & Farah Rahim

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Title Investigating DO dynamics and metabolic activity in stormwater and closed urban ponds

Excerpt The project aimed to quantify the biogeochemical activity, ecosystem services, and formation / mobilization of organic sediment accumulates.

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Students Gabriel Philippe

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Title PSK for all

Excerpt This project focuses on organizing vendors for the 2024 PSK street festival and addressing post-pandemic safety concerns in Kensington Market. The team conducted on-site research and interviews with local businesses to assist KMBIA in creating a more accessible and safe environment.

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Students Jason Ng, Samantha Wu, Haifeng Sun, Lam Vu, Brandon Mahoney

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Client Kensington Market Business Improvement Area

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthSustainable Cities and Communities

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Title The Social Implications of TransformTO’s 5G Implementation Strategy

Excerpt This report presents recommendations for bettering TransformTO’s (TTO) implementation of 5G technology into Toronto’s infrastructure to improve existing strategies across the social, global, and environmental factors implicated in technological innovation.

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Students Husaina Lakdawala, Keyi Liu, Ruolan Ma, Deanna Aubert

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureSustainable Cities and Communities

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Title Building Roots: Designing a pathway to community leadership

Excerpt Focuses on developing a leadership training program for Moss Park residents to support community leadership amidst neighborhood redevelopment. The program includes promotional materials, onboarding processes, training phases, and a celebratory graduation.

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Students Nashaat Rahman, Mahlet Berhanu, Taylor Simsovic-Peters, Nicolas Martinez-Gonzalez, Malak Gaafar

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