Student Project | Xueni Hu | History in the Future: Reimagine Downtown Streets in 2050

What should a downtown street look like 30 years from now? In many people’s imagination of “Future Street”, there are always cookie-cutter high techs and shining new street views, leaving less room for the original characteristics of a street. In this project, Yonge St, the very first street in Toronto, is chosen as a study object to pursue answers to the following questions: How can we reveal the history and characteristics of a street when applying new technologies? How can we maintain a street’s significant influence on the cultural identity of a city?

Yonge Street represents the start of Toronto’s history. In the modernization process of the city, Yonge Street

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