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Ontario-York Region Sign Landmark Transit Agreement

Building May 29, 2020

The Ontario government and York Region have signed a preliminary agreement to move forward on a northward extension of the Yonge subway line into Markham and Richmond Hill.Following the signing of the "Ontario-York Region Transit…

Urban Planning

COVID 19 pandemic prompts urbanites to rethink ‘grand bargain’ of dense city living

Giuseppe Valiante – THE CANADIAN PRESS May 15, 2020

MONTREAL – The densely populated slums of Montreal's Griffintown were the subject of a famous 1897 study by businessman and philanthropist Herbert Ames, whose work on the disease-ridden tenements influenced generations of urban planners on…

Cities

How to build more resilient cities post-coronavirus

Jino Distasio, University of Winnipeg May 4, 2020

A person carries groceries while walking among cyclists on Queen Elizabeth Drive in Ottawa on April 18, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang As Canadian cities recover and rebuild their economies post-pandemic, there will be increasing…

Urban Planning

Homeless man being moved to Toronto apartment “can’t wait to take a bubble bath”

Liam Casey – THE CANADIAN PRESS Apr 30, 2020

TORONTO – Dozens of people living in tents across Toronto have been moved into furnished apartment buildings as part of the city's response to protect the vulnerable during the COVID-19 crisis.The encampments have popped up throughout…

Real Estate

Coronavirus is significant, but is it a true black swan event?

Glenn McGillivray, ICLR, Western University Apr 30, 2020

A black swan event must meet three criteria: it must be an outlier, must have a major impact and must be declared predictable in hindsight. (Buiobuione/Wikimedia), CC BY-SA Since the “black swan” metaphor was coined in the 2007 book of…

Cities

COVID 19 showing suburbs are just as vulnerable as cities

David Porter – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Apr 29, 2020

NEW YORK – Haunting images of an empty Times Square and the daily accounting of hundreds of fatalities in New York City have reinforced the idea of the coronavirus as an urban contagion.That may obscure an equally sobering truth: Many…

Cities

Not Your Parents’ City

Patrick M. Condon Apr 15, 2020

The climate emergency is bearing down, hard, on the world's cities. But cities are also facing three other dramatic waves of change, all three positioned to crest sometime around 2060. First, during these four decades the people of the…

Construction

Rider Levett Bucknall Anticipates the Effect of Coronavirus on the Construction Industry

Building Apr 8, 2020

International property and construction consultancy firm Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) has released its latest Crane Index for North America.The report, compiled with information gathered from three sources—a one-day physical count of…

Cities

Coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity to create affordable cities

Howard Ramos, Alan Walks, Jill L Grant Apr 6, 2020

Rent strikers from Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood and fellow protesters gather outside Social Justices Tribunal Ontario in February, 2018. The group refused to pay rent after the landlord applied for an increase in rents. THE CANADIAN…

Cities

Cities lead the charge on the coronavirus front lines

Shauna Brail, University of Toronto Apr 6, 2020

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…

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