In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6), which crawled along on its maiden journeys thanks to ...

Decommodifying Housing On previous episodes of this series, we’ve talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing ...

In 2023, the Vancouver City Council recently adopted a motion titled “Uplifting the Downtown Eastside and Building Inclusive ...

In the intricate machinery of urban governance, one figure looms large but largely out of sight: the City Manager. Appointed ...

Steel girders that used to carry cars across the Don River now carry conversations on a quiet stretch of East Chinatown.

I’m not especially interested in carrying the beer (or wine) for a bunch of people who can buy super expensive homes. But ...

See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...

When the University of Toronto’s John P. Robarts Research Library, located at St. George and Harbord streets, opened its doors in 1973, it was the largest academic library building in the world, ...

Registration is open! Hundreds of placemaking leaders from around the world will gather in Toronto from June 8-11, 2025 to take part in the Global Placemaking Summit. The Summit is a unique ...

Shadow study with full shadow lengths provided outside the initial frame chosen by Perkins & Will for the 1780 E. Broadway proposal. Shadow studies often get lost amid the seemingly more pressing ...

When Sidewalk Labs rolled into Toronto in 2017, there was no ambiguity about the corporate family tree. Sidewalk officials repeatedly said the smart city start-up venture was a kind of mash-up: Google ...

Almost two decades before the first video game found its way into an arcade, the Canadian National Exhibition hosted a strange electronic device with an brightly lit scoreboard. It read: “computer ...