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Cities lead the charge on the coronavirus front lines
A crew works on building a 68-bed emergency field hospital specially equipped with a respiratory unit in New York’s Central Park on March 29, 2020.
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
Shauna Brail, University of TorontoHow many times have we heard…
CannonDesign envisions street signs that represent our new era
Street artists like Roadsworth (or even Banksy) are probably deep in their studios coming up with public art that reflects the unusual times we all find ourselves in. Interestingly enough, a clever member of a New York-based architecture…
Small businesses face devastation as damage from virus grows
NEW YORK – A restaurant owner wonders how she can stay in business if she can't sell food and drink.A hair salon operator shuts down to protect his clients and employees.A photographer who expected to take pictures at an Ivy League…
Beyond Public Subsidy: Richard Joy on IZ
Rhys Phillips: Let me start with asking whether you think inclusionary zoning is a viable program option within our development market as a means to address affordable housing?Richard Joy: I would definitely say that on the face of…
Beyond Public Subsidy
Canadians tend to smugness when comparing our social safety net to our southern neighbour. But comparatively, our support for affordable housing is weak following the gutting of social housing expenditures in the late 1990s. Only the…
The Third Rail of Municipal Politics
For urban areas across the country, light rail transit has emerged as something of a miracle cure, able to reduce traffic congestion and lower GHG emissions while increasing mobility and boosting economic development. But it has also…
Montreal pulls plug on electric scooters for 2020 after rules flouted
Montreal is kicking electric scooter-sharing services off its streets after a trial run didn't go as planned.The city says that despite regulations, only 20 per cent of scooters were actually parked in one of the 410 designated…
Cities are locked in and looking for the key
“Many cities are locked in. Both in terms of environmental responsibilities, and in terms of issues of equity,” says Cem Kayatekin, a professor at the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid, in a guest column. He uses that phrase –…
Google expands Canadian presence with offices in Waterloo, Montreal and Toronto
Google is upping its Canadian presence with a plan to open three new offices, giving it enough space to accommodate 5,000 employees by 2022.The tech behemoth revealed Thursday that it will build a trio of new facilities in Montreal at…
Four ways smart mobility will make our world a better place
It was about five years ago that our team noticed clients asking the same question again and again: “How can we build less parking?” The answer seemed obvious, though not necessarily easy: reduce the number of cars on the road.This was…