Assistant Professor Alissa North's peer-reviewed paper Processing Downsview Park: Transforming a theoretical diagram to master plan and construction reality has been published in the Journal of Landscape Architecture.

A former airbase northwest of Toronto's downtown core, Downsview Park is intended to be Canada's first national urban park. North's paper looks at the winning proposal (the result of an international competition) for the park and how it has been altered over time due to changes in the design team's membership and political and economic realities.

While the winning submission proposed a process-based landscape strategy rather than a fixed plan, over time, a static master plan evolved for the park. North's paper examines these two different approaches and posits "a landscape framework approach that accommodates the flexibility, iterations and resiliency necessary to support contemporary urban landscapes."

The full text for the article can be downloaded here.