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What other cities can learn from Toronto’s ride-hailing experience
With British Columbia rolling out its ride-hailing regulations in August, Toronto City Council re-examining its bylaws, and Halifax looking to do the...
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Book Review: Design Process in Architecture – From Concept to Completion
Author: Geoffrey Makstutis (Laurence King Publishing, 2018) This book will be particularly useful for those who are considering – or are in their first...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 8
By Way of Conclusions We’ve come a long way, covering a lot of meaningful ground around the city-wide planning process. Like Lynch over half a century...
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Book Review – Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
Author: Vaclav Smil (MIT Press, 2019) There are few terms as pervasive in discussions about contemporary cities than “growth”. It monopolizes debates...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 7
Time and the City: A Living City-wide Plan We’ve come a long way in addressing the many challenges associated with city-wide planning, but the issue of...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 6
Developing Alternatives Let’s assume that we’ve managed to develop clear, meaningful objectives that have been made more comprehensive through connecting...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 5
Weighting Goals and Objectives Now that we have a sense of how to approach setting usable goals and objectives for city-wide planning and criteria to...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 4
Planning Goals and Objectives – Criteria In light of the common shortcomings described earlier, let’s consider a list of criteria that should be met...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 3
Planning Goals and Objectives – Shortcomings The usefulness of the methods and techniques described in Common City Planning Initiatives revolves...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 2
Common City Planning Initiatives We would be forgiven if our initial reaction to the nature of the contemporary city described in Part 1 is to run away...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 1
Can city design be good? Few would doubt that they can, yet an honest answer must be tentative. It must pry into city planning, objectives, and the...
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Book Review – The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology In Its Place To Reclaim Our Urban Future
Author: Ben Green (MIT Press, 2019) This book is about the battle for the future of cities. The smart city may represent the next major urban...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered