The Tale of Two Facades

Building Charm: A New Book About Designing New Neighbourhoods

The Surprising ROI of Compact Streets

Seoul Searching: From Post-Graduation Trip to the “Perfect Project”

How This New Neighbourhood Gained 23% More Buildable Land (case study)

The New Subdivision: How to design for people even when cars are still needed

The Overlooked Amenity That Shapes Homebuyers Demand

Wait, Is Smart Density Supporting Sprawl Now?

The Next Generation of Neighbourhoods

Townhomes with Covered Rear Laneways: Canadian Precedents

Private Streets, Shared Gains: Unlocking Efficient Land Use and Walkable Design

Smart Density Awarded City of Toronto Contract for Downtown East and Dundas-Sherbourne Area Urban Design Study

Mini-Mid-Rise is now As-of-Right on some of Toronto’s Main Streets

Developing Large-Scale Government-Owned Land

Incremental Urbanism in Mexico City

More than Letter Swaps: how to shift from TODs to TOCs? By Scaling Down

My daughter’s ‘car allergy’: and why it matters for housing and city living

Israel’s Kibbutz: A Model of Car-Free, Communal Living and Sustainable Urban Planning We Could All Learn From

Observations from Warsaw

Vienna’s Social Housing Model Targets the Middle Class

The International Beautiful Tall Buildings Challenge

9 Urban Designs Lessons We Learnt in 14 Years

What is Urban Design & How Does it Shape Our City?

The New Mid-Rise Building: Articulation without Angular Planes

Is it Time to Abolish Employment Lands?

In a search for a 3-bedroom, family unit

Co-Living + Communal + Deeply Affordable Housing in Downtown TO

How Other Cities in the U.S. and Canada Implement Missing Middle Policies?

12 Little Anecdotes from ‘Happy City’ by Charles Montgomery

The Yellow Belt – Local Empowerment Gone Wild

Dutch Urban Design – What can Canadian cities adopt?

The Perfect Missing Middle Project

Part 4: How Not to Miss The RER Opportunity

Part 3: How to Make the Most of the RER?

Part 2: How to Tie the RER Station to its Area?

Part 1: What is the GO RER

3 Critical Urban Planning Principles Toronto Should Adopt from Tokyo ASAP

Not Just Simple Supply and Demand: Five Other Places to Look at to Understand What Prevents Us from Achieving Housing Affordability in the GTA

Lansing Square

4 of the Most Creative Community Engagement Ideas for City Planners

If Vancouver’s architectural style is so similar to Toronto’s, why does it feel so different at grade? Review of Vancouver’s Urban Design

What is the Naked House concept and how can it help solve Housing Affordability in Toronto?

Balconies that People will Actually Use

Review: Growing Up- Planning for Children in New Vertical Communities

King Street, Toronto / Jaffa Street, Jerusalem

Part 01: Mid-rise Buildings That Work – The Guidelines

Part 02: Mid-rise Buildings That Work – The Problems

Part 03: Mid-rise Buildings That Work – The Solutions

Part 04: Mid-rise Buildings That Work – Design Alternatives

Part 05: Mid-rise Buildings That Work –Solve The Deep Units