Nam Nguyen is a future urban planner with a strong interest in creating great social space and equity in planning. A great passion for street design functionally caters for all users and planning or health and accessibility.
Throughout Nam’s academic career, he has taken part in several group projects and These projects explore Saskatoon Street design and improvement focused on safety for all mode users and social revitalization in public space.
Street design and public space quality is a core aspect of a city’s functionality. Planners when developing new neighborhoods base the designs on those fundamental rules of bringing community together, visual appeal and multi-purpose space for everyone. However, when we look at the parks and roads in the city of Saskatoon, there is a contradiction to those rules. The roads are created only for the cars, many of them lacking even sidewalks, whereas parks are rarely made for different activities, rather for simply passing by to get from point A to point B.
