Portfolio

Check out some of my planning-related work below. If you’d like to see my communications and marketing portfolio, please reach out.

Development Planning Project Brief

For this assignment we were tasked with picking a development application which required a public hearing. We were asked to document the details and public opinion, then provide recommendations on the planning process.

Official Community Plan Update Proposal

This group project was an exercise in understanding how OCP’s are updated. We posed as a consulting firm pitching our process to a small, hypothetical town called Bountiful, BC.

Sample Public Engagement Poster

For this Social Planning assignment, we were tasked with creating a poster advertising a hypothetical public engagement event.

Social Planning Photovoice

This photovoice exercise uses photographs from my neighbourhood, Mount Pleasant in Vancouver, to understanding the urban planning challenges and needs of the community.

Lower Lonsdale before colonial settlement: planning history

This is an excerpt from a school assignment. The whole group paper can be found on LinkedIn. Human settlement in what is now called Lower Lonsdale goes back millennia. From both Oral Traditions and written accounts, we know about a couple of village sites in this area which existed before colonization. There were several hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓…

Film Review: C̓əsnaʔəm, the City Before the City

This film review was originally written and recorded in Summer 2020 for my Cities and Crisis course Podcast Review Written Review C̓əsnaʔəm, the City Before the City is a documentary which tells a story of modern activism. I review this film from the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)…

Walkabout: Indigenous Presence in my Neighbourhood

This is an exerpt from a term-long “walkabout” journal from my Indigenous Perception of Landscape course. This was from week two, and I am particularly keen to share all the interesting things I found out about my own back yard. Walkabout 2 – Neighbourhood presence  In lecture this week we learned that when Burnaby was…

Indigenous Placemaking as a form of Resistance and Resilience

Originally written in Fall 2020 for my Indigenous Perception of Landscape course Introduction  Feeling a sense of belonging is central to human nature, and this can be achieved through placemaking. In a neocolonial age, placemaking can also be a form of Indigenous resistance and can strengthen Indigenous identities. Centuries of cultural genocide inflicted by the…

The transformation of streets during COVID-19

Originally written in Fall 2020 for my Pandemics and Cities course. This summer while I was taking courses online for the first time, I shared a couple school reports on my social media. They were received well by my friends, family, and former colleagues, so I thought I’d keep it up. Right now I am…

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