urban planning

The Ontario government, Therme Group, and Diamond Schmitt have released renderings of their vision for the revitalization of the waterfront property. Therme…

Waterfront Toronto has announced the selection of four shortlisted teams to compete in designing Quayside, a 12-acre parcel on Toronto's waterfront that…

Dear Toronto Toronto, you are one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, proudly referred to as “Canadian Mosaic.” However, despite all the…

Space and Anti-Space: The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture By Barbara Littenberg and Steven Peterson (ORO Editions, 2020).       “I regard the revival…

The Atlas of Excellence in Architecture—a database of award-winning projects by Canadian architects, urban planners, and landscape architects—has launched an…

TORONTO – Sidewalk Labs' ambitious vision for a hi-tech neighbourhood equipped with futuristic innovations won't be coming to Toronto's waterfront. The…

A jury of nine experts headed by Reed Kroloff, Rowe Family Dean, College of Architecture, at the Illinois Institute of Technology (USA), will evaluate entries…

Over the past two decades, Winnipeg has gone through a cultural and commercial renaissance, with residents returning to live and work in the urban core, and a…

The first new student residence to rise at University of Toronto’s downtown St. George campus in a decade has reached a development milestone. U of T said an…

Passive House Canada and Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Building Exchange (ZEBx), participated in the UNECE High Performance Building Initiative at UN Headquarters…

Sidewalk Labs "hadn't foreseen'' how fiercely Canadians would demand that their data be retained within the country when it first sought out to design a "people…

Alan DeSousa has been mayor of the Borough of Saint-Laurent in the City of Montreal since 2002 and a municipal politician since 1990.

By Marya Cotten Gould, Gregory Henriquez and Robert Enright. Edited by Robert Enright. Blue Imprint, 2016. Unlike a traditional call to action that urges…

Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring, editors. Random House Canada, 2016. 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of Jane Jacobs’ birth, and events across North…

As the success of Toronto's Queens Quay shows, streets can be transformed‚ through design, into strong contributors to the public realm.

Elsa Lam reviews Avi Friedman's collection of short essays.