What the f*#k is a software developer doing on a housing panel? It’s not the kind of question I usually entertain, but when a friend sent it to me while scrolling through an event listing, I had to ...
Several weeks ago, the members of Bridging the Design Gap, an informal design charette, posed the question: ‘when is a bridge more than just a ...
Looking west down Queen Street At eleven yesterday morning I learned that Global television wanted to interview me, an arborist, about the late changing ...
They are the least-thought out public spaces in Ottawa and yet they are used hundreds of thousands of times in a day. Many people spend more time in and ...
TTC • TTC bus driver suspended over coffee break probe [ Globe & Mail ] • TTC driver caught on break suspended [ Toronto Star ] • Idle pass machines ...
Author: Alain de Botton (Pantheon, 2006) I recently found myself speechless after a follower of my writing asked me why I’ve never addressed beauty ...
The City of Toronto has been named a “role model city” by the United Nations Environment Program for Supporting Urban Ecosystems. It’s part of an initiative the UN calls “Generation Restoration,” part ...
Here’s a shocker: Save and except a two-line statement, the Mayor of Toronto had nothing whatsoever to say about the Conservative government’s Titanic ...
How does one know if the main street running through a neighbourhood, or on a route to work, is becoming more congested?
Urban Green • Government needs strict rules before homeowners can safely go green [ Toronto Star ] • Thank city’s ‘clean and beautiful’ ...
HALIFAX – As winter hits Nova Scotia each year, the Out of the Cold Shelter (OTCS) fills up quickly with people who have and had no other options of ...
As an architectural photographer, I am always keen to record surviving fragments of older streetscapes in areas of downtown ...