Infrastructure
ED: This op-ed by Shane Mitchell regarding Windsor’s “Mega-hospital” debate is a microcosm of the poor land use planning many Canadian... Read More
Book Review – Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes DesignAuthor: Kat Holmes (The MIT Press, 2017) The idea of universal design is powerful and (hopefully) prevalent in everything designers... Read More
Book Review – Inventing Future CitiesAuthor: Michael Batty (MIT Press, 2018) Given the state of the world, it is fair to say that the future of cities is intimately... Read More
Book Review – Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban MediaAuthor: Shannon Mattern (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) There is little doubt that the influx of digital technologies is... Read More
Book Review: The Language of CitiesAuthor: Deyan Sudjic (Penguin Press, 2016) The early moderns did all they could to find ways of controlling the uncontrollable city... Read More
Book Review – Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better PlacesAuthor: Jeff Speck (Island Press, 2018) When I reviewed Walkable City, the precursor to this book by Jeff Speck in 2013, I was in a... Read More
Whose Renaissance? Saint John's future 
Saint John: Photos of an underappreciated city 
Why Saving One House from Honda Demolition Matters 
There is no Good Development but Complete Development 
Tearing Off the Water Street “Refresh” Bandaid 
Small is Beautiful: Dartmouth's Findlay Centre and the new Master Plan