Don+Mills+as+a+Case+Study

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**People**
- Majority are seniors - Many students in the area (Don Mills Middle School, high school, French School, elementary school attached to church) - students: majority live close to the “centre” of Don Mills, large asian population but the school has students that speak over 50 languages - mixed housing: low-rise apartments, bungalows, - gifted students, differently abled students, CyberARTS students, Special needs - families - seniors are sensitive (COMPLAIN) about noise levels, they take readings of sound levels in the area for them - Higher income populace

__Physical Differences__ - age differences - physical capability: walking to places, how can people handle the weather

__Psychological Differences__ - different mental capacity - different lifestyle needs - students and seniors have specific needs - generational gap: price sensitivity, environmental needs, entertainment needs, consumption pattern

__Mental Model__ - see how people define "community" (investigation) - seniors' mental picture of the old neighbourhood vs. the newly planned community

**Activities**
- certain hot spots for students: “centre”, library - Edwards Gardens, Skating Rink - school ends, lunch time, rush hour - major intersection, transit - Sunnybrook Hospital, North York General - swimming - garage sale - voting - volunteering - activities centrered on fitness and well-being

**Context**
- it used to be the centre of the neighbourhood, but now is it only the centre in terms of geography instead of being a social centre? Is it being well integrated into the community? - for scheduled events - physical environment: major intersection, people waiting - environment would be mainly involving the Donway - parks, kind of hidden away, huge section near Leslie and Eglinton

__Physical:__ - sporting, fitness at parks - Building: had to do shadow studies, can’t build too high

Note: Who actually owns that piece of grassland (the central square)? The complex management? - proximity of places of interest to necessity to residential

__Social:__ Social Norms: - having lunch with friends at schools - parks, ravine, church, complex - hang out at Tim Hortons - read/study at library - removal of family-owned shops makes some people (i.e. seniors) feel excluded; see [|link]

__Organizational:__ - transit systems - traffic systems - circular route around the center of the community - are certain "public" features necessary? I.e. the skating rink - hiking/walking trail; paths that connect to parks and residences

**Technology**
- how people come to know about events/happenings (Internet, flyers, word of mouth) - there is the North York Mirror, local newspaper - certain sites follow community goings-on but these are largely unknown - the [|Shops at Don Mills] have their own site with events for the area - some community events or activities are listed in a large booklet for North York on the whole

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