creating a self-guided walking tour focused on brownfields redevelopment in Toronto’s Lower Don Lands for urban planning professionals, professors, and students, including research, maps, project descriptions, photos, and on-site testing.

Tour theme: Brownfields Redevelopment in Toronto’s Lower Don Lands
Task: To create an urban and regional planning-focused self-guided walking tour for Urban Planning professionals, professors, and students interested in brownfields, redevelopment, and urban environmental management.
Projects to be included:
Toronto Police Services 51 Division
Distillery District
Underpass Park
Corktown Common
West Don Lands (Pan Am Games site)
Portlands Flood Protection Project
Quayside
The student will first conduct research to examine different self-guided tour formats for the tour they are going to develop (smartphone, PDFs, other).
Then, develop maps/routes.
For each project, the student will prepare a brief urban planning-oriented write-up (1 page single-spaced) with information about site history, cleanup, planning and development, financing and other relevant information (as well as on-site must-see features), photos, as well as links to additional research, contacts, and resources.
The student is expected to visit the projects and pre-test the tour.