Master’s Student

Rami is a graduate student in the Master of Planning (MPl) at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP). He holds an Honours Bachelor of Economics from Carleton University.

His graduate research includes a research assistantship with the ReActivate Lab, where he is researching Canadian public funding programs for brownfield redevelopment. With the Health Access + Planning Lab, Rami is working on a Major Research Paper (MRP) studying informal music venues. This MRP will examine how neoliberal property markets and restrictive land-use regulations have pushed independent artists out of mainstream nightlife spaces, and how they have come to build community through informal spaces as a result.

Research Interests: Cultural planning, community engagement, nightlife planning, economic development, adaptive reuse.

Projects: Brownfields Funding in Canada; Ontario Municipal Brownfield Policies; The Sound of Place

Publications:

• Coming soon!