In the intricate machinery of urban governance, one figure looms large but largely out of sight: the City Manager. Appointed ...

This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood ...

See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...

ADFF "Big Brutal Quiz" on Brutalist architecture in film, won by Derek DeLand, Kim Glennie, Martin Knowles. Satirical post-match interview with BBC Sport.

In a widely read, shared and commented upon column in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, columnist Robyn Urback asked a question that ...

After more than two decades tucked away as an idea simply not worth the cost, Highway 413 is finally kicking into gear as ...

In 1864, Fydor Dostoevsky wrote his seminal Notes from Underground, a novella exploring existentialism and alienation in a large city – in his case, St. Petersburg – the premise of which in many ways ...

What does Indigenous housing look like? Are there special forms of housing needed by Indigenous communities in particular to address specific health and community needs? And what kind of housing can ...

In my earlier Coriolis Effect series (Part I, Part II, and Part III), I argued that city planning has been quietly absorbed into the logic of the developer’s spreadsheet. What once was a public ...

"Fish Market, Toronto," Joseph Clayton Bentley, 1837. Credit: Toronto Public Library. This article is published in conjunction with Spacing issue 71, which focuses on Toronto’s waterfront. The issue ...

In Vancouver today, rezoning doesn’t necessarily mean building. Increasingly, it means something else: securing entitlements — legal permissions that inflate a property’s value regardless of whether ...

As Canadian cities strive to navigate rapid urbanization, climate change, and digital disruption, “smart city” strategies have emerged as a popular, and tempting, framework for innovation and reform.