Suburban nostalgia
Among my colleagues in urban planning, suburbia is seen as one of the most powerful forces shaping our towns and cities. Suburban sprawl, which eats up prime agricultural land, forces residents to...
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Whitopias
Many researchers are concerned about ethnic concentrations in our cities, particularly in the US. Researcher Rich Benjamin’s latest book Searching for Whitopia: an Improbable Journey into the Heart of...
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Save Transit City
I’m getting pretty tired of writing about great policies and projects that we’ve proposed in Canada, only to have to write later that the government has decided not to fund them. Toronto’s Transit City...
View ArticleThe end of suburbia?
As many of you know, there have been some very interesting developments in American cities over the past couple of years. Some cities have experienced decreased car ownership, there was a decrease in...
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Toronto’s “class divide”
Many researchers in Toronto have become experts at mapping the city’s spatial, cultural, ethnic, and political trends. A few years ago, the Globe and Mail even published a language map of Toronto based...
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Transit? Who needs it?
New Toronto mayor Rob Ford has been making headlines: and not in a good way. Ford has long been a controversial figure, and this summer’s mayoralty race was no exception. Echoing Mel Lastman, a...
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Year end wrap-up
New housing in Nieuwe Rhijngeest Social housing in Oetgstgeest, built before the economic crisis In the Urban Planning group at the University of Amsterdam (UVA in Dutch), it’s become a tradition to...
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Most population growth in Canadian suburbs
A new report by David Gordon and Isaac Shirokoff at Queen’s University School of Urban and Regional Planning has found that the majority of population growth in recent years has been in suburban...
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Travelling to YYZ is about to get better–at a price
Rendering of the UP Express by Metrolinx Many cities have rail links to their airports, including Vancouver, New York, London, Amsterdam, and Paris. Although many of these are cities historically built...
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