WexPOPS, a SEDRD-created community gathering place that ‘popped up’ in the Wexford Heights Plaza in Scarborough this summer, was mentioned in a recent Toronto Star article entitled, "How turning parking spaces into tiny parks could ease Toronto's public space shortage [1]." The article discusses the value of converting parking space to park space with case studies from Toronto and San Francisco and announces a new parklet bylaw that the City of Toronto will be enacting this fall.
The Spacing [2] magazine published an article last week summarizing the project, including the role that U of G MLA students played in the community design process.
WexPOPS is the first pilot project of the plazaPOPS [3] initiative, which evolved out of Daniel Rotsztain’s MLA thesis in 2018 and is co-led by Daniel and Landscape Architecture Prof. Brendan Stewart [4] and Karen Landman [5].
The photos below are from the WexPops initiative at Wexford Heights Plaza in Scarborough. 
Images courtesy of Brendan Stewart and Kat Rizza.
