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Category Archives: News
Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt and Auditor General’s Report
When the Ontario Auditor General’s Special Report on Changes to the Greenbelt was released on August 9th, 2023, the impact was felt across the Toronto region. I study greenbelts (I have written several articles and a book chapter, and was … Continue reading
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Top 10 Books for New Planning Students
Students often ask me what planning books they should be reading, especially when they are beginning their graduate studies in planning at York (and curiously, when they are about to finish). Incoming students are typically interested in issues related to the … Continue reading
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Greenbelt Plan Review
With a focus on the Greenbelt, here are my thoughts on the Crombie Advisory Panel Report Planning for Health, Prosperity and Growth in the Greater Golden Horseshoe: 2015-2041: Recommendations of the Advisory Panel on the Coordinated Review of the Growth Plan, … Continue reading
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Jane’s Walk: Cool enough for school!
If you’ve been a tourist in a city other than your hometown, you may have taken an outdoor tour of an interesting place. But have you ever thought of doing your own? How about a Jane’s Walk? Or, even better, … Continue reading
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Paper Towns
“Paper towns” in John Green’s 2008 novel of the same name are places that exist on paper but not in real life. The story takes Quentin, at the moment of his high school graduation, to many paper towns in the … Continue reading
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Still working on my article about the landscapes of Toronto’s apartment towers but in the meantime…
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef believes a Brutalist-architecture renaissance is upon us, according to his article in the Toronto Star. Is it possible that Toronto’s apartment towers will be cool? Gentrified? Much focus of late on the towers as spaces of “vertical … Continue reading
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Nature in the city
urbantoronto.ca is a fascinating view into Toronto’s future. The effect of seeing the collection of (all?) development proposals underway in the city and region is at once thrilling and terrifying. Toronto is transforming before our eyes. We are in the … Continue reading
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Tom Slater’s Top 10 Books
It’s never easy to make a top 10 list of influential books but here is a terrific list for urban studies folks. What are yours?
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NASA’s view of sprawl
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Toronto Chief Planner’s Roundtable on “Next Generation” Suburbs
“What are we going to do with the suburbs?” What is it about the suburbs that makes planning for them seem so difficult? Why do we need a roundtable on what to do with the suburbs? Toronto’s new Chief … Continue reading
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