The Toronto Star

This column looks at the NIMBY-minded attitude of one couple that has been fighting to prevent a bus line from coming into their neighborhood.

Christopher Hume looks at the welcoming power of benches in seating-heavy Montreal, and argues that other cities need to take the simple step of planting more benches to make urban areas more lively and attractive.

Christopher Hume argues that Toronto's planners, in planning for easy vehicle access to the revitalizing waterfront, will be harming it as a pedestrian environment.

By moving out to areas where planning approvals are faster, rapidly-expanding churches are creating suburban sprawl, according to a recent study from researchers at Ryerson University.

Toronto's Metrolink brings together city and transportation planners to brainstorm the transit of the future.

This column from the Toronto Star argues that Toronto needs to take at least a few lessons from Vancouver if it wants to improve its planning.

Though there is some resistance to change, many cities in North America have their sights on undoing the damage of the last 50 years of suburban development.

UCLA Professor Donald Shoup has criss-crossed the nation lecturing about the many benefits from market pricing of parking -- but he says too many cities are still making decisions based on politics.

By looking closely at the key factors that helped London's congestion charge succeed, other cities can decipher whether a similar scheme would work in their jurisdictions.

Planning has become too much like a court case, with two sides and one winner. According to columnist Christopher Hume, this adversarial nature must be changed.

The German city of Bremen has lessons to teach North American cities about sustainable transportation, according to this article from The Toronto Star.

Forget slogans and fancy trains. If transit agencies just focused on getting people where they need to go in a consistent, reliable (and preferably quicker) way, more people would abandon their cars.

By requiring a minimum height of at least two stories, cities could force big boxes to redesign their buildings into more urban friendly forms.

Critic Christopher Hume bemoans the destruction of historic homes in Toronto to make way for new residential condo towers.

Libertarian economist Randal O'Toole has become notorious for defending sprawl in recent years. This article from The Toronto Star wonders if he might have a valid point.

Poor planning is allowing uncontrolled and rapid gentrification to destroy Toronto's Liberty Village neighborhood, according to this article from The Toronto Star.

The age of the suburbs may be coming to an end in America, and conditions in Canada are even more ripe for this transition to urban density.

Experts are calling for a major revision to the city operations of Toronto, suggesting the creation of region-wide toll roads, increased taxes and

A downtown renewal effort in Mississauga, Ontario, looks to update its street grid by following the lead of other major world cities.

The team chosen to redesign Toronto's waterfront has big plans for updating the area with a better balance of car and foot traffic. Architecture critic Christopher Hume looks at the plans as a model of development the rest of the city should follow.