Waterfront
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Queen’s Quay promenade makeover finally on its way
Queen’s Quay is finally on its way to becoming the signature tourist street in all of Toronto. Yesterday, Waterfront Toronto CEO John Campbell and...
By Amber Daugherty -
My City Lives: Waterfront Toronto
Ken Greenberg is an architect and urban designer residing in Toronto. Instead of redevelopment, Greenberg believes in revitalization, and the protection...
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Ideas for Ontario Place
Over the weekend the National Post ran a story collecting the thoughts of nine different architects and planners (including me, a pretend...
By Shawn Micallef -
Following up on Leslie St.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the potential for Leslie Street from Queen E. to Lake Shore to be turned into a gateway to the Leslie Street Spit and...
By Dylan Reid -
Leslie Street – Gateway or Gate to the Waterfront?
The City of Toronto has an opportunity to transform Leslie Street into a welcoming gateway to the Leslie Street Spit and the eastern waterfront, but is...
By Dylan Reid -
Inside CityPlace: My Yuppie Life
You could call me a yuppie. I live in a concrete box downtown. I work as a young professional at a prominent downtown non-profit. In the months when I can...
By Ryan Bolton -
LORINC: Acceleration and Other Myths About Life in the Fast Lane
Listening to the first post-kumbaya consultation by Waterfront Toronto, at the Toronto Reference Library a week ago, I was struck (again) by the sense...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Handcuffs or straightjackets on the waterfront?
If Unbuilt Toronto chronicler Mark Osbaldeston gets around to penning a third installment of our city’s missed opportunities, Michael van Valkenburgh’s...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: The case for compromise on the waterfront
Amidst the torrent of objections to Doug Ford’s backroom Port Lands plan, a central theme stands out: that Waterfront Toronto deserves enormous praise for...
By John Lorinc -
Reality check on the waterfront
A group of prominent urbanists — Eric Miller (director of the Cities Centre at U of T), Paul Bedford (former chief planner for Toronto), Richard Sommer...
By Matthew Blackett -
Guest Toronto waterfront commentary: it ain’t about the monorail or Ferris Wheel. It’s the long-term lost revenue.
EDITOR: The following is commentary by Jon Robson, cross-posted from his tumblr. Robson is an amateur photographer and close municipal politics watcher...
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LORINC: Going around and around on new waterfront plans
With Rob Ford’s executive committee set to view brother Doug’s plan to transform the Port Lands into an up-market playground, I’d like to add a pair of...
By John Lorinc