Urban Design

Indigenous youth help redefine landscape architecture

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It’s impossible to teach someone how to build a deer-skin drum over Zoom. “Just feel the string,” says Oshkabewis... Read More

In memory: Q&A with Michelle Senayah

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Michelle Senayah, co-founder of the Laneway Project and a force behind Open Streets Toronto, died suddenly at the age of 36 earlier... Read More

LORINC: The case for re-branding urban shade for a world on fire

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Given the increasingly dire news about climate change, including the release yesterday of the IPCC latest report on accelerating... Read More

Fixing Sam’s Road: The urban design disaster of Avenue Road

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Avenue Road is the enduring legacy of Sam Cass. Very enduring. Cass was the traffic engineer hired by the new Metro Toronto government... Read More

LORINC: The failing of governance of Toronto

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The debacle that was last week’s so-called debate over multi-tenant housing, which ended in a stalemate, was quite plainly evidence of... Read More

The Un-Avenues: Integrating new intensity for housing, open spaces, and streets

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model... Read More

Anishnawbe Health finds a new home

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On Indigenous People’s Day, June 21, Anishnawbe Health Toronto held its ground-breaking ceremony for the Indigenous Hub that will... Read More

Shining a light on Toronto’s streetlamps

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Street lighting is an important, yet overlooked, part of any city’s standard infrastructure. For over seventy years... Read More

LORINC: Why Toronto’s urban design needs a lesson on climate and equity

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Many Torontonians, including critics, have long bemoaned the absence, at least in recent decades, of a unique architectural character... Read More