Spatially Planning For Death In Cities Re-Imagining the Silent City: Planning Urban Cemeteries in Municipal City Planning in Ontario

The concept of "deathscapes" (Maddrell & Sidaway, 2010) focuses on the relationship between space/ place, death, bereavement and mourning in Western societies. Bringing a spatial lens to death, dying, mourning and remembrance makes their everyday occurrence in the city explicit – and alerts urban planning discourses to recognize their significance. This plan of study focuses on re-conceptualising and re-imagining urban planning practices for deathscapes in diverse cities. This includes planning for the built environment, as well as cultural practices of memorialization. This plan of study facilitates consultation with professionals in the death industry, municipal representatives, urban planners and the community, in order to prescribe transformative urban and regional planning practices– based on the changing needs of diverse cities such as Toronto.