Cities + Architecture
Toronto
Joined November 2015
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Stefan Novakovic retweeted
Every time someone runs a tap, dishwasher or flushes we're sending heat down the drain, so why not use it? In Vancouver, the Sen̓áḵw development project is tapping into a sewer line to provide carbon-free heating and cooling @NovakovicTO begiant.ca/stories/ideas/sew…
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“The ReHousing initiative shines a civic spotlight onto the informal — and disappearing — multi-unit densities that have historically provided affordable living homes across Toronto.”
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Leslie Lookout Park has been named one of @AzureMagazine's top 10 public spaces in the world for 2024! Designed by CCxA, @GH3architects and @Arup, Leslie Lookout Park includes an urban beach and lookout tower giving you a unique view of Toronto from the Port Lands.
“Who would have thought that a park in the middle of an industrial zone could be so peaceful?”
Check out @AzureMagazine's review and the full list here: tinyurl.com/ycx6y9jp
#YourCityYourPortLands #PortLands #CityBuilding #Toronto
ALT Top 10 Public Space
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Denied entry to the @CIBCSQUARE park yet again (which is a privately-owned public space) because my camera was too nice for security's liking?
The @cityoftoronto POPS system is broken if private security is allowed to decide which members of the public can use these spaces.
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Reporting that 1% of Torontonians bike to work – without qualification – is not good journalism
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Mercifully, the city never installed bike lanes on Wellington and traffic moves freely!
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Truly a Canadian hero. I spent a lot of time with him in remote northern Indigenous communities in the 1980s when he led Manitoba's Aboriginal Justice Inquiry. Later he led the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, inspired by South Africa's TRC. He helped Canadians learn the truth.
Murray Sinclair, former judge, TRC commissioner and senator, dies at 73
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Most Torontoians are multimodal - using transit, cycling, Uber, walking or driving - as the circumstance allows.
The Province is spending billions to accelerate regional sprawl - knowing full well that those cars end up clogging city streets.
In addition - they are enveloped in a billion dollar transit boondoggle with an entire LRT system built, mostly in a tunnel below ground, sitting empty and unused.
Blaming cyclists for congestion is flat-earther type public policy. Disconnected from reality.
BREAKING: Ontario has just proposed regulations that would rip out bike lanes in Toronto on Bloor, University and Yonge:
ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-92…
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📣 Rocket Riders!
💥 Episode 021: What is York University Station?
🎧 bit.ly/4fa3j26
🙌 We visit @VincentTuronno's alma mater of York University to check out the cool subway station right on campus.
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This is aggressively stupid. It will accomplish nothing but to get people killed.
BREAKING: Ontario has just proposed regulations that would rip out bike lanes in Toronto on Bloor, University and Yonge:
ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-92…
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I'm going to be doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow about the speculator series! Get in there and ask me some questions! reddit.com/r/Detroit/comment…
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After 4 amazing days at the @TIFF_NET Lightbox full of film screenings, panel discussions, and even a walking tour, the 6th annual @ADFILMFEST Toronto has come to a close. 🎬 Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the festival such a success! torontosocietyofarchitects.c… – at Toronto, Ontario
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Saying ‘food delivery dudes use bike lanes’ as though it’s an argument against them.
We’ve created this parallel economy of precarious, risky gig work - damn straight those people should have safe routes. ‘I want my burger delivered to my door, but only via mixed traffic’. 🙄
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Stefan Novakovic retweeted
Because the grass is always greener on the other side, in my latest piece for @jacobin i wrote about the rise of public architecture in Mexico, making outstanding buildings available to all.
jacobin.com/2024/10/amlo-fou…
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Early morning shoot with @kurtischen to capture our first completed build at Make Good 💙🩵 Can't wait to share the final pics soon (and some new material for our website!)
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Inbox: Toronto mayor announces commitment to increasing library funding so that all branches can be open seven days a week
This will cost a relatively paltry $8M annually and would be in effect by 2026, *twenty years* after the library board approved its “Open Hours Vision”
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Fun fact: children under 16 are not caught by Statcan's travel mode survey, I guess because their travels aren't considered "commutes". Feels like the safety of young children is a valid object of public policy though! As the parent of a young child, I certainly think so!
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The example cited by John:
- is not on public land
- is not on a central waterfront site
- demolished a warehouse, not a park
- does not entail unnecessarily relocating a prized educational institution
- does not involve publicly funded parking and site prep costing a billion $
Exciting news for @ThermeGroup! The Ontario Place waterpark and huge lakefront public park for Toronto is next.
RT @ZoeCoombes: What do I get wrong: A family from NYC and buys a 100 year old house at Yonge and Bloor for $10M is an ‘existing homeowner’…