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The planning and placement of schools is making students 'auto-dependent', according to an urban planning academic in Canada. Others also bemoan the architectural design of schools and the potentially harmful building materials used to build them.

Many in Toronto are hoping that this year's groundbreaking on the new Lake Ontario Park will help to create a new identity for the city. The park's designer is confident that it will.

A new Canadian company has matched GPS-coordinated street-level camcorder shots of Toronto with mapping software to enable a real-life horizontal view of any coordinate, allowing users to preview a destination before visiting.

New figures show a dramatic downturn in two of Canada's hottest real estate markets -- Calgary and Vancouver -- though the change appears to be a reaction on the part of consumers to unrealistically rapid price increases.

In an unprecedented move, the Province of Alberta's energy regulator has issued a warning that time is running out to put in place the infrastructure -- including roads, schools and health care -- needed to keep pace with oil sands development.

The Solaire, the first residential high-rise to earn “LEED Gold” status, is not just a premier environmentally friendly building—it’s also a big moneymaker.

Despite its booming growth and the recent announcement of a world-class office tower, downtown Calgary is suffering from a lack of human-scale planning, writes Lisa Rochon.

A Canadian architect has been in the Philippines for the past year designing homes for the country's poorest citizens. His method utilizes whatever building materials can be found to create an easily constructed and long-lasting home.

Ottawa's proposed Clean Air Act would repudiate Canada's Kyoto commitments, and not produce results until 2050, writes John Ibbitson.

Canadians have always been proud of the fact that Jane Jacobs called Toronto home. Why then, asks the Globe and Mail's Lisa Rochan, has the city of Toronto been strangely silent about how to keep her legacy alive?

In a sweeping series of budget cuts, Canada's Conservative government has eliminated the only federal support available for municipalities wanting to preserve heritage buildings.

Urbanism critic Trevor Boddy of Toronto's Globe and Mail is upset with the city planners who significantly changed their plans for his neighborhood without public input. He says the town hall meeting before the decision was all fluff.

Cities across the U.S. and Canada have implemented bylaws making it illegal to sleep in public places. Now British Columbia's Supreme Court is considering a court case challenging such laws as violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

A new report from Statistics Canada shows that city dwellers in Canada are less likely to be overweight than those residing in rural areas, and that this tendency increases with the size of city.

Alberta's surging oil economy is growing so quickly that service industries can't compete, budgets for infrastructure projects can't keep up with rising labour and material costs, and oil companies are building their own housing projects.

In its final installment on Canada's suburbs, the Globe and Mail looks at the energizing impact of Asian immigrants on British Columbia's lower mainland.

The French city of Montpellier's experiment in car-free planning is a future worth sharing, writes John Allemang.

In the third of its four-part look at Canada's suburbs, the Globe and Mail looks at the growing number of upper class families moving to suburban communities in search of larger homes.

In the second of a four-part series on suburban Canada, the Globe and Mail looks at how suburban communities are dealing with the aging of baby boomers -- a "battle that's lost ahead of time."

A new green project near Toronto is fostering a LEED-ing of the city. The 243-acre development will be Canada's largest LEED-certified project yet, and though the developer hadn't planned on going green, it turned out to be more profitable.