Housing
The year 2021 comes with high expectations, expectations to get back to the work we started pre-COVID and to build back stronger when it’s over. In... Read More
Book Review – Here & Gone: Artwork of Vancouver & BeyondText and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020 I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts... Read More
MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 4Exactly fifteen years ago this week, I received this short and uplifting e-mail from Toronto city staff: January 12, 2006 Hi Dave, We... Read More
LORINC: Yonge Street’s new missionIt sometimes seems as if the ‘whither-Yonge Street’ question has been loitering on the edges of our civic debates ever since the... Read More
Sam Carr and Toronto’s Soviet spiesSam Carr walked out of the Don Jail on a crisp autumn day in 1942. He had been living underground for two years, and detained for the... Read More
Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday DesignAuthors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists... Read More
LORINC: Crombie's resignation from Greenbelt Council reminds us to look upstream 
MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 4 
Reading List: John Sewell, “The Shape of the Suburbs” 
LORINC: Yonge Street’s new mission 
LORINC: 2020, a year of urban resilience 
Re-purposing Toronto’s city-owned golf courses