Ontario
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.
Quality Home Design Meets Mass Production
"What if you could actually afford to buy a house by award-winning architects?"
Toronto's Waterfront Vision Imperilled
Intergovernmental gridlock frustrates plans for revitalization of the Lake Ontario shoreline
Toronto's Regent Park To Be 'Transformed'
Canada's first public housing project will be demolished and rebuilt as a mixed-income community.
New Vision for Toronto Waterfront Unveiled
A rushed federal report proposes 39 new waterfront projects including considerable new parklands.
Pagination
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Heyer Gruel & Associates PA
City of Clovis
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service