The Five Forces

One. The number of medical practices is a good indication of accessible health care.

Two. There were a few school around. Each serving a specific radius of culture or religion.

Three. Right after existing the RT trains, the first notice I made was the construction of condominiums, and there were many of existing ones around.


Four. The rail way is a important aspect of a city`s transportation as well as division.



Five. The bank is more general in terms of a force, however it maybe interesting when combined with other forces later on.

Project One- part1: Amin Shahinbakhsh

1. Business
The major business in the Kipling neighborhood is the mechanic shops and storages for train containers

2. Transportation
Residence of the area use personal vehicle and public transportation.

3. Community
Less population than the center of Toronto. Some residential areas ,but there were no place for community bonding.

4. Traffic & Road

Traffic during the rush hour

5. Residential
There limited residential buildings around the Kipling station.

Project One. Part One: McCowan staion. By Anna Totska.

People.

Based on observation, there is a dominance of elderly people and teenagers among other population in this neighbourhood. Shopping mall is a place for entertaining for both age groups.

Littering.

Garbage is a problem for this neighbourhood. The interesting fact is that there are signs, such as "No Littering" but there is a visible littering right beside this signs.

Contrast

There is a big contrast in this neighbourhood between busy, functional structures and useless bare areas; and all in within small area. This field for example, on the top left, is a trope that leads to the subway.

Places.

This Neighbourhood has all conveniences. Shopping centres, entertaining places, gas station and banks are all within a small area. These all places are mostly franchised. People are very multicultural in this area, with mostly Asian and Indian dominance. There are no signs of this multiculturalism in actual city structure.

Traffic.

This is a video of Elsmere and McCowan intersection at around 2PM. It shows very busy neighbourhood where buses and cars play an important role in transportation and connecting to larger urban areas. There are also other ways of transportation, such as GO train, SRT and shuttle buses. This neighbourhood is located far away from urban area, where well organized transportation system gives this area an easy and fast access to urban area. It also gives this area a busy and loud urban feel.

Project One - Part 1 (Downsview Station) - HB

1. Types of business:

On the west side of Allen Rd. (Downsview Station), a Canadian Forces Armoury, various warehouses, and casual restaurants are found (above). On the east side, law firms, dental clinics, beauty specialists and other mom-and-pop stores (conveniences, food store, pet shops, restaurants) dominate the streets of Sheppard and Wilson Heights Blvd. (below)

2. Community

A mix of new and old. While there are new condominiums and houses on every street, there are some old houses, dull, poorly maintained ones as well.

3. Traffic:

Quite heavy on Sheppard at Allen. Traffic is light around Sheppard and Wilson Heights.

4. Political Positions

Downsview is Liberal-dominated neighbourhood.

5. Transportation: TTC (buses, subways), Viva buses

Kipling Station

Downsview Station: additional pictures

These are just additional pictures of Downsview Station itself

- this is going to be the first scene you will see if you visit this site by TTC
- it was about 6:00pm but the traffic was very light, it was such a dull station!
but it was also very neat; a newly renovated looking.

Project one- Downsview (by Yewon Karen Lee)

Community : in the downsview, there were lots of places where people can enjoy the leisure time. This photo shows indoor car racing place.

Transit: In the Downsview station, two transits are running such as TTC (bus and subway) and Viva (bus).

Government/ traffic" on the street I easily saw people who were wearing the military uniform.

Business type/groups/density.. ETC: Most people who are selling the products are South American. Also i found out that lots of people in the market were black people.

ethnicitie: This place contains cultural aspect of Africa.

Kipling Station- Mehdi Hosseini

1-Residential


There are just a few residential apartments next to the Kipling subway station.




2-Traffic
Rush hour time at the main intersection close by Kipling station.

3-Bussines Size

Most businesses are small and having a few customers because of less population comparing to the central area of Toronto.

4-Transportation

Kipling station is located in the furthest west in the TTC and the city of Toronto. The need of transportation is the force that made city of Toronto to build the station in Kipling area.

5-Vehicles

Most of the vehicles were in the lower class; cheap and old. There were a lot of trucks indicating the type of jobs in which most residence having in that area.

"PROJECT ONE: PART ONE: DON MILLS STATION: Nancy Huang."

FAIRVIEW MALL : Central place of social gathering.

TRAFFIC: Rush hour! Don Mills and Sheppard.


PARKING LOT: I observed alot of space for parking.

APARTMENT BUILDINGS: There are many apartment buildings that tower the area.



VEGETATION: All the apartment buildings have beautiful well maintained flower beds and nice front lawns.

downsview station