by Yule Heibel

Gardiner Expressway at the crossroads: Hume | Toronto Star This article is about an expressway in Toronto, but Christopher Hume’s closing sentences apply to so many other places and situations: low expectations, self-perpetuating, lack of will to re-invest… QUOTE A reason was the low expectations Torontonians had for that part of town. It is viewed […]

Project for Public Spaces | Toward Place Governance: What If We Reinvented Civic Infrastructure Around Placemaking? QUOTE Rather than just sustaining and delivering public goods, government can evolve from regulating “the tragedy of the commons” to fostering its triumph. In other words, government can be most efficient at delivering value when structured primarily to facilitate […]

Tall is Good: How a Lack of Building Up is Keeping Our Cities Down Some excellent points in this article (see quote extract), but also so many contradictions/ so much wrong. E.g., there’s a trickle-down supposition (if you build more housing stock, prices will fall): in desirable urban centers, however, that doesn’t seem to happen […]

What Your Street Grid Reveals About Your City – Sarah Goodyear – The Atlantic Cities This “street area calculator” could be really useful in determining context-specific redevelopment… QUOTE Price has created a “street area calculator,” that allows you to plug in a street width and block size. Using this tool, you can come up with […]