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Sep 25, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Some damning maps of the heat island effect by @globeandmail colleagues. A clear link between wealth and safe conditions. Toronto: 1/ ImageImage
Vancouver: 2/ ImageImage
From this important piece by Matthew McClearn and @KBlazeBaum theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… 3/
Meanwhile: new Toronto parks, in the “parkland-deficient” downtown core ImageImage
I wrote on this
Narrow the streets and plant them. Why does Toronto policy insist on taking down mature trees to create 18’ wide traffic lanes?
Amazing: this row of trees is getting cut down to add a sidewalk - and protect the lane widths and the adjacent school parking lot Image
The real battle for permeable and green surfaces is on streets themselves. But “road width constraints exist based on the City’s Road Engineering Design Guidelines” ImageImage
The nation’s most privileged neighborhood, and a historically working-class one

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Aug 31, 2023
Modest proposal for Toronto: the city's real estate agency @_CreateTO should be empowered to *shape* what city agencies do with their sites. Public assets should be managed holistically with an eye to top city priorities and first-tier design.
A critically important site @ExPlaceTO has been underused and degrading. Acres of underused land next to a rapid transit hub. Its use and management are of citywide concern.
The theatre agency @TOLiveTweets is pursuing a major and very expensive project that has little hope of happening
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May 11, 2023
Toronto has ended exclusionary zoning. Four units minimum on every residential lot.
I think it’s fair to say: Our book has had an impact on the debate. @CheryllCase @JohnLorinc @arkwelder12 @coachhousebooks
I have a piece coming @globeandmail, but: It’s shocking how quickly things have changed on this file, and yet much more change is both possible and necessary
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May 10, 2023
Watching the Toronto council debate on multiplexes. It's very calm. Seems very much as though this proposal is going to pass. Set up by Dustin Cook here theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
This political shift has been late, but it's been fast. The xenophobia and straw men so evident in Vancouver and California are relatively absent here
There's some nonsense, to be sure. Stephen Holyday now mad that a fourplex is allowed to be bigger than a single monster home. The injustice!
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May 8, 2023
"Very few buildings have truly significant historical or cultural value, and we must differentiate between those that do and those that simply offer a nostalgic aesthetic." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I think this is exactly right. While the Australian context is foreign, the insight carries over: heritage includes more diverse stories and people. But a 40-year bloat of dubious listings in rich-white-people neighbourhoods remains intact.
In my local Toronto context, there is both too little protection -- of public and/or Modern buildings -- and far, far too much protection of other things. A reckoning is necessary.
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Feb 21, 2023
My column on the Toronto mayoral race: housing is everything. theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto… #topoli
In an uncharacteristically bold move, Tory just announced some YIMBY planning reform. This must continue.
Unfortunately, city staff aren’t up for it. Today: planning agrees that the new downtown waterfront Villiers neighbourhood can be 30% more dense. In fact it should be 100% more. secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda…
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Feb 20, 2023
Ottawa’s mayor does not seem fully aware of the challenges ahead. theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
Mark Sutcliffe: “Downtown could be a 15-minute neighborhood and Barrhaven could be a 15-minute neighbourhood.” One of these things is true, and the other is absolutely not. Barrhaven:
If the city decentralizes, a low-density, car-oriented exurb like Barhaven will not just acquire any of the qualities of the “15-Minute City.” Neighbourhood retail and services are very hard to run in a place like that.
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