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Zoning: A Prospective Instrument of Climate Adaptation
Fadi Masoud
Landscape Journal, May 2025, 44 (1) 21-32; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.44.1.21
Fadi Masoud
Fadi Masoud is an associate professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Toronto and the director of the Centre for Landscape Research. His research and teaching focus on the relationships between environmental systems and multi‐scalar urban design. Masoud has received several awards, including the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects Research and Innovation Award and the Council of Landscape Architects Teaching Excellence Award. Masoud currently sits on Waterfront Toronto’s Design Review Panel and is a member of Toronto’s Urban Flooding Working Group, where he helped launch the city’s first Resilience Strategy.

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Zoning: A Prospective Instrument of Climate Adaptation
Fadi Masoud
Landscape Journal May 2025, 44 (1) 21-32; DOI: 10.3368/lj.44.1.21
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