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Woman in Bike Lane, Toronto, Canada

In the War on Cars, Only Drivers Kill

A Toronto Star columnist frames a recent spate of pedestrian fatalities in stark terms.

October 10, 2017 - Toronto Star

Toronto Regent Park

Condo Development Controversy Goes Viral in Toronto

The controversy over a proposed eight-story condo development in Toronto embroiled author Margaret Atwood this week.

August 31, 2017 - Toronto Star

Toronto Moss Park

Redevelopment Plans and Gentrification Concerns for Toronto's Moss Park

Urban renewal of the 1960s built large amounts of public housing in the formerly industrial neighborhood of Moss Park in Toronto. Now, the neighborhood and its eponymous park have become home to some of the most impoverished people in the city.

September 3, 2016 - Toronto Star

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Ontario, Canada Working on Sprawl-Killing Legislation

It's hard to imagine a policy that so comprehensively acts to create disincentives for sprawl gaining political traction anywhere in the United States.

May 22, 2016 - Toronto Star

Toronto Planners Shopping Massive Transit Plans

What's being described as an unprecedented outreach program will gather public feedback on a total of seven provincial and city-led transit projects for the Toronto area.

February 17, 2016 - Toronto Star

An Ambitious Plan to Rethink Toronto's King Street

Here's a project to watch: an influential group of contractors has been hired for a complete streets makeover for King Street in Toronto.

January 26, 2016 - Toronto Star

Justin Trudeau

The Urban Agenda of New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau is Canada's 23rd prime minister, after his election victory over incumbent Stephen Harper. Trudeau is the son of iconic PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and has promised large spending programs to benefit urban areas.

October 22, 2015 - Toronto Star

One Developer's Appreciation of Landscape Architecture

A planner and developer waxes poetic, and keeps it pragmatic too, about the importance of landscape architecture.

September 7, 2015 - Toronto Star

Toronto's New Complete Street: For Everyone, By Everyone

A complete streets makeover for a stretch of Queens Quay in Toronto earns high praise.

June 27, 2015 - Toronto Star

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Toronto City Council Decides to Rebuild Gardiner East Expressway

Coulda, woulda, shoulda. The Toronto City Council sided with Mayor John Tory this week to rebuild an elevated freeway in downtown rather than tearing it down.

June 12, 2015 - Toronto Star

Quiet Suburban Road Considered for Toronto's New Subway

Some are calling one of the proposed routes for an extended Scarborough subway route in Toronto a straw man. The discussion about the route provides insight into the city's current transit planning process.

June 4, 2015 - Toronto Star

Neighborhood Activists Mobilize Against Mid-Rise Developments in Toronto

There are neighborhoods where residents are concerned about new developments raising prices, and there are neighborhoods where residents are concerned about new developments lowering home values. Toronto is currently dealing with the latter.

May 26, 2015 - Toronto Star

Festivities for "Community Crime Awareness Day." Mississauga City Hall is in the centre of the photo

Why Toronto's Suburbs are the 'New City'

In the Toronto area, the region's suburbs have evolved in ways that make them fundamentally different from their outdated postwar image. Yet the ways we think and talk about the suburbs haven't kept up with this new reality.

September 27, 2013 - Toronto Star

Townhouse Trend Takes Toronto

In the land of the blooming condo high-rise a different housing type is starting to sprout - the 'urban townhouse'. Tracy Hanes explains what makes such homes attractive to buyers, and looks at three popular townhouse projects.

August 28, 2013 - Toronto Star

Despite NIMBY Opposition, Density is the Only Option for a Prosperous Toronto

Christopher Hume delivers a forceful argument for why density is necessary for maintaining a prosperous Toronto in the decades ahead, and why the alternative, sprawl, is environmentally unsustainable and economically ruinous.

October 26, 2012 - Toronto Star

Toronto Suburbs Tackle Obesity Through Design

The role of the physical environment in promoting healthy living was the focus of a gathering last week in the Peel Region, which encompasses three of Toronto's western suburbs. Participants discussed the challenges of adapting suburban environs.

October 24, 2012 - Toronto Star

Transformation of Toronto's Main Drag Gives City Reason to Celebrate

The wild success of a "pop-up urban intervention” transforming Toronto's Yonge Street has Christopher Hume and the city's residents excited about the ability of small moves to have a big impact.

August 21, 2012 - Toronto Star

Is Downtown Toronto a Suitable Place for Families?

In remarks that have caused an uproar in North America's fifth largest city, Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday lodged his foot firmly in his mouth last week, telling city council and reporters that downtown Toronto is an unsuitable place to raise children.

July 17, 2012 - Toronto Star

Reshaping Detroit by Turning Out the Lights

In an effort to save money and to rationalize civic services, Detroit is going to be turning out the streetlights in "distressed" areas.

June 24, 2012 - Toronto Star

Lamenting Toronto's Missing Middle

Christopher Hume surveys Toronto's "mid-rise crisis" and asks why the city has made it nearly impossible to build "the urban residential form par excellence."

May 29, 2012 - Toronto Star

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