Ontario
Kunstler On Ontario's Green-Belt Plan
Author James Howard Kunstler discusses Ontario' new green-belt protection plan to halt sdevelopment outside the Greater Toronto area.
Most Expensive Transit Fare
The Toronto Transit Commission's planned fare increase makes it the most expensive fare in Canada, and more than fares charged in New York, Chicago and Paris.
Toronto's Subtle Architecture of Exclusion
The Toronto Star wonders if Toronto's urban planners are intentionally driving people away from downtown.
What Would It Take To Make Toronto Beautiful?
Lisa Rochon hosts a roundtable conversation to examine the reasons for the city's architectural mediocrity.
Reshaping Toronto
Outside of the spotlight of celebrity architecture, entire sections of the city are being transformed.
Debate Over Proposed Greenbelt For Toronto
Progressive Conservative leader accuses Liberals of rushing through a poorly designed greenbelt policy without adequate consultations.
Greenbelt Sustainability
Breaking the chains and building a greenbelt based economy in Ontario.
Urban Growth And The Toronto Greenbelt
The Fraser Institute publishes a report by Wendell Cox questioning Ontario's plans to implement smart growth policies intended to slow the growth of urban land areas.
Ontario's Anti-Sprawl Plans
Ontario, Canada, plans to curb urban sprawl with a new growth management strategy.
A Primer On Roundabouts
The Region of Waterloo presents an animated tutorial and website about how to use a roundabout.
Canada's First National Urban Park
Can a new urban park on the north side of Toronto change the city and offer a new model of urban planning?
'It Takes Guts' To Be Green
How Toronto's greenbelt idea evaporated.
The Wide-Shallow Lot: A Good Thing for Buyers or Builders?
Purchasers don't always consider all of the facts when choosing a new home on a wide-shallow lot.
Statistics Canada Improves Planners' Access to Data
New partnership initiative makes demographic data available to planners at considerably lower cost.
Toronto Waterfront Redevelopment Agency Needs Teeth
Governance review by the province holds promise of new powers needed to get on with implementing its mandate.
Toronto Wants To Be A Great City
Recent high profile projects have commisioned star architects for their designs, with debatable results.
Reducing Onerous Parking Standards Key to Urban Intensification
On-site parking requirements need to be relaxed before Toronto's main streets can intensify.
Building for People, Not Cars
New Urbanist community in suburban Toronto realized through developer's vision and persistance.
Toronto Subway Expansion Constrained by Lack of Vision
As Toronto's subway turns 50, experts and enthusiasts ponder the system that might have been
Online Game Lets You Balance Toronto's Books
Simulation allows citizens to experience the tough budgetary decisions facing Toronto's municipal leaders.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
