Leo deSorcy

Leo deSorcy is the Program Manager of Urban Design in North York District. He has worked for the City of Toronto since 1988 and has been in the North York office since December 1998. Before his work at the City of Toronto, he worked in the private sector for leading Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design offices in Calgary and Toronto.

 

Leo and his staff are currently involved in over 200 active applications and more than 30 area studies in the North York District. These include implementing first phases of the Lawrence Allen Redevelopment Secondary Plan, York University Secondary Plan and Campus Master Plan and Park Downsview Park Secondary Plan. He is excited about the Midtown – in Focus, the Yonge Eglinton Streetscape, Parks and Open Space Master Plan which began this summer.

 

His current urban design interest includes revisiting the Garden City tradition and its local modern evolution and studying the Toronto traditions of building dense but livable neighbourhoods. He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba, BES and University of Toronto, B Arch and has taught at the University of Toronto Daniel's School of Architecture, Landscape and Design since 1984.