Author(s): Victor Perez-Amado & Fadi Masoud
Parks in Action is a multidisciplinary design-research initiative that spans multiple years and institutions. The project emphasizes the importance of suburban parks, open spaces, and the public realm in Toronto鈥檚 climate adaptation and mitigation efforts, focusing on air pollution, the urban heat island effect, andflooding.1 A key objective is to assess and quantify the social and environmental value of public and private open spaces inToronto鈥檚 inner suburbs, particularly the 鈥渢ower in the park鈥漬eighborhoods at an urban scale, as well as to offer design-based solutions in form of 鈥淐ommunity Climate Action Hubs鈥 on a smaller park scale.
Volume Editors
Sara Jensen Carr & Rub茅n Garc铆a Rubio
ISBN
978-1-944214-48-7