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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 & ...
This letter, signed by 27 prominent B.C. experts in urban planning and architecture, was sent last week to Prime Minister ...
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 ...
Singapore’s skyline is constantly in motion. Construction cranes and hoardings are as much part of the visual identity of the ...
Singapore often appears as a paradox—both widely admired and deeply critiqued. It is a city-state that epitomizes precision ...
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...
In British Columbia, ordinary homeowners pay annual property taxes—and when they buy a home, they pay Property Transfer Tax.
There’s a glaring irony about the city’s messily disintegrating priority bus lane plan, which landed at executive committee ...
When I look out my office window, trying to think up a lede, I find myself staring at the grey-stuccoed side-wall of a house kitty corner to mine, which was owned for a long time by a mobster of some ...
How many bills does it take to build the homes Ontario says it needs? The recently re-elected Doug Ford government would have you believe it takes several, despite missing its own housing targets for ...
There was a burst of side-taking last week after the ever-green topic of improving access to Toronto’s pre-eminent public space bobbed, again, to the political surface. The question: how to improve ...
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is more than just a means to a destination, it is also a shared space where passengers from all walks of life come onto trains and buses together. Poems in Passage ...