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2024: Wexford Blooms 2gether

Interview with Naziha Nasrin on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning

July 26, 2024

CBC Radio

Ahead of our first Wexford Dhaba on July 27, 2024, plazaPOPS’ Program Director, Naziha Nasrin, spoke with David Common, the host of Metro Morning.

Naziha explains what Dhabas are before she shares what motivated her to plan Scarborough’s first Dhaba. Have a listen by watching the above video, which includes some bonus animations!

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2019: WexPOPS

Interview on CBC Fresh Air

July 7, 2019

CBC Radio

From CBC Radio: “A community initiative called plazaPOPS launched in Toronto this weekend. Co-leads landscape architect Daniel Rotzstain and Brendan Stewart, professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph talk about its inspiration and community response.”

Fresh off the launch of WexPOPS, Brendan and Daniel spoke with CBC Radio Fresh Air host Nana Aba Duncan about plazaPOPS and its positive impacts on the social, economic, and environmental well-being of Toronto’s inner suburban neighbourhoods.

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2019: WexPOPS

A new project is going to be animating Toronto’s Strip Malls

April 19, 2019

CBC Radio

plazaPOPS co-lead Daniel Rotsztain spoke to CBC Radio’s Here and Now ahead of the 2019 WexPOPS installation. That day, CBC Radio was broadcasting out of the Scarborough Town Centre mall, as part of wider coverage and focus on projects happening in Scarborough!

Listen here!

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PlazaPOPS is funded by the City of Toronto’s Main Street Recovery and Rebuild Initiative, as part of Government of Canada support through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).

Research for plazaPOPS is funded through a SSHRC Partnership Development grant, in partnership with the City of Toronto and the University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) in the Ontario Agricultural College.