Azure Magazine’s senior editor Stefan Novakovic moderates this free, 90-minute deep dive into a trio of Toronto-based ideas that have applications for other urban centres.

Architect Naama Blonder shares her concept for the Mini Mid-Rise, and explains how it could both boost Toronto’s main streets economic activity post-pandemic and increase the much-needed housing supply with an incremental approach to intensification.

Using Koreatown as a case study, a team led by architect Steven Fong explains why any top-down initiative to help the beleaguered commercial strips of Toronto’s diaspora enclaves needs a bottom-up plan to address the viability of small storefront buildings.

Three M.Arch candidates from the University of Toronto—Victoria Cardoso, Erman Akyol, and Eugenia Wong—offer their take on revitalizing the Ontario Place lands, offering ways to contribute to the liveability and appeal of a multicultural, sustainable, and equitable province.

Together, these speakers will explore their concepts and seek common themes that show how architecture professionals can use their skills, education, and thinking to provide new ideas for a changing world.

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