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This letter, signed by 27 prominent B.C. experts in urban planning and architecture, was sent last week to Prime Minister ...
Singapore’s skyline is constantly in motion. Construction cranes and hoardings are as much part of the visual identity of the ...
Few cities in the contemporary world have made public housing as central to urban life as Singapore has. With over 80% of the population living in flats built and maintained by the Housing & ...
In British Columbia, ordinary homeowners pay annual property taxes—and when they buy a home, they pay Property Transfer Tax.
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...
Singapore often appears as a paradox—both widely admired and deeply critiqued. It is a city-state that epitomizes precision ...
In an intriguing aside a third of the way into Justice Paul Schabas’ extraordinary decision (issued yesterday) in Toronto’s bike lane war with Premier Doug Ford, he reveals how, about a month ago, he ...
There’s a glaring irony about the city’s messily disintegrating priority bus lane plan, which landed at executive committee ...
When the University of Toronto’s John P. Robarts Research Library, located at St. George and Harbord streets, opened its doors in 1973, it was the largest academic library building in the world, ...
In 1972, Leslie Martin and Lionel March published Urban Space and Structure—an influential book featuring a series of essays written in the late 60s exploring the question of what building forms make ...
We discovered new avenues of the city we would have never found unless we had a reason to be there. Many places were sitting right under my nose, not far at all from my apartment, that I never would ...