Exploring Pedestrianism in Contemporary Streetscape Planning: A Scrutiny of the YongeTOmorrrow Initiative in Downtown Toronto

In a study of Toronto’s YongeTOmorrow plan, my thesis explains the significance of pedestrianism and the role that it plays in the planning and regulation of the urban streetscape. However, the plan under scrutiny proposes an overhaul to the streetscape that creates a reinvented pedestrianism. This is a danger to publicness, as its benefits will be limited to businesses and their middle-class consumers, whose presence and interests are prioritized. Meanwhile, street-present non-consumers will be urged to move along under the regulatory absolutism of The Safe Streets Act, 1999. In this context, efficient flow is being reshaped to privilege consumption while continuing to restrain the liberty it alleges to cultivate.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. Geography

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Faculty of Social Sciences

Department dc:contributor.department

Department of Geography

Grantor

Brock University

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Geraghty, Aaron

• Pedestrianism
• Neoliberalism
• Public Space
• Planning
• Democracy

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10464/18171

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:brocku.scholaris.ca:10464/18171