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Paul Young, landscape architect

Paul Young is a registered landscape architect and urban designer. He has over 20 years experience in urban design, streetscape and park design. Paul has a master's degree in urban planning and over 13 years of strategic planning and facilitation on planning matters.

Paul heads up Public Space Workshop a small consulting office specializing in participatory planning and design. The work focuses on neighbourhood planning, planning for active transportation and open space design.

Paul believes that sustainable and healthy communities emerge from a design process that involves numerous stakeholders including the general public.  Projects become interactive learning opportunities for both participants, planners and designers. 

Paul Young’s urban design experience is complemented by 14 years working in health promotion at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre in Toronto.

He collaborates with associates in the fields of landscape architecture, planning and public art.

Paul's speaking engagements, articles and Curriculum Vitae can be found HERE

Collaboration and Support

We have worked with a number of organizations including  WalkON, Green Communities Canada, The Evergreen Foundation, Walk21 and various public health units across Ontario.  When required we will bring in additional support. Below are some of our collaborators.

Eguchi Associates Landscape Architects Inc.

Full service Landscape architects combining art, ecology and community.  Link to Eguchi Associates

Neluka Leanage

As a member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute Neluka has worked on active transportation master plans and national active transportation studies. Neluka has training and experience in urban and rural planning, health promotion and policy. Based on her initial PhD findings, Neluka developed two tools: a behaviour shift model and an approach to monitor and improve implementation.

Jungle Ling

Jungle is an experienced illustrator, sculptor, metal fabricator and mural artist. In addition he is trained in social work providing counseling and outreach services to youth, homeless and under housed populations in Toronto.

Owen McCabe

Owen is a graduate of Community Design at Dalhousie University. He has interned as a planner at several municipalities and is proficient in Adobe CS5, ArcGIS and AutoCAD.
 
Owen was responsible for a recent research report for Public Space Workshop entitled Analysing Walkabilty, a collection of techniques and tools for evaluating intersections and streets for walkability.  The report is available at http://www.owenmccabe.net/research/analyzing-walkability/

A detailed C.V. is available at http://www.owenmccabe.net/cv/

Kristin Marshall

Kristin is experienced in small group facilitation, editing and community legal education.