urbanism

In this exclusive excerpt from the book Toronto Reborn, architect and urbanist Ken Greenberg considers the merits of the Sidewalk Toronto proposal.

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…

A block west of Olympic Stadium in Montreal, the Guido-Nincheri Park reclaims that small corner of the urban realm from the automobile, creating a new…

Anyone with an even passing familiarity with Toronto’s history knows that late 19th-century railways and post-war highways posed an existential threat to Fort…

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…

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…