Ideas

As we turn our focus to housing in this issue, it’s worth noting—and lamenting—that architectural innovation in the middle- and low-income sectors continues to…

Raffaele Milani is beside himself with concern about the current deplorable state of modern megacities. As an Italian, he has lived the contradictions as his…

Toronto-based urban designer Ken Greenberg is a former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto, and Principal of Greenberg Consultants…

Jay Pitter is a Toronto-based author, placemaker and advocate for more inclusive, safe and vibrant cities. The co-editor (with John Lorinc) of the 2016…

Martha Thorne, an American architectural scholar, curator, editor, author and urbanist, is currently the Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize…

Andy Yan is an urban planner and the director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University. A former research director at Bing Thom Architects, he gained…

Brigitte Desrochers reviews the book Exploring the Capital: An Architectural Guide to the Ottawa Gatineau Region.

Economy as ethic. For the Halifax-based firm MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple, this book illustrates more than an architectural approach. And for Brian McKay-Lyons in…

Even when it was first published in 1985, and  in 1989 when the second edition was released, I’m not convinced booksellers filed Patricia  McHugh’s Toronto…

Below the nearly endless landscape to the north, the narrow belt of our country’s population makes for a profoundly urban nation, whose wilderness is at once…

An independent filmmaker captures the spirit of the new industrial conversions.

Transportation infrastructure influences the shape of cities for centuries. The road pattern of ancient Rome still provides settings for a thousand sidewalk…