Concerns About Toronto’s Infrastructure Grow, Plans To Fix It Seem To Shrink
byWhen a pedestrian footbridge over a nine-lane highway in suburban Miami collapsed — just five days after it was installed — alarm bells went…
Hume with a View
What Toronto Can Learn About Civic Excellence From Rome
byToronto is not Rome and never will be. But the challenges it faces are just as eternal. There’s nothing like a week or two…
Is The Multi-Million-Dollar Quayside Project Worth The Risk For Toronto?
byIf media reports are to be believed, Sidewalk Labs’ Quayside project is nothing less than the launch of a conspiracy to take over Toronto….
King Street Pilot Success Clears Track For College Street Pilot Project
byIn the beginning was the street. And with the street came the city. They were two halves of a larger whole. Then came the…
Façadism: Not Every Heritage Building Can Be Saved, So Where Do We Draw The Line?
byHeritage preservation is as much about the ensuring the future as rescuing the past. But in Toronto, it exists in an eternal present —…
Toronto’s 2018 Budget: Why Sooner Or Later We Have To Pay The Price
byTorontonians had better hope the real estate market doesn’t cool off anytime soon. Without the $800 million collected through land transfer levies, Mayor John…
Toronto’s First Great 21st-Century Neighbourhood Is Unfolding: The West Don Lands
byJust when it seemed the art of city-building had been lost forever, along comes the West Don Lands. Tucked away south of King just…
Toronto Only Canadian City To Make Amazon’s Short List For New Headquarters HQ2
byEven if Toronto loses, it wins. As one of only 20 cities on the short list for Amazon‘s HQ2, and the lone Canadian entry…
9 Things Toronto Needs To Do For 2018 — But Probably Won’t
byGiven the pace of growth in Toronto, there’s no doubt 2018 will be another year of unprecedented change in the city. Though our crystal…
Christopher Hume’s Project of the Year: Google’s Quayside
byNot often does a Toronto development project make headlines around the world, but in 2017 it happened. The object of global attention was, of…