What do urban planners do when cities are shrinking, not growing? This is hard to imagine in a city like Toronto, where real estate is at a premium and construction cranes are a constant feature of the skyline. However, many German cities have been steadily shrinking in population size over the last three decades, resulting […]
Rappers Kardinal Offishall and Saukrates, singer Jully Black, video director Lil鈥 X and deejay collective Baby Blue Soundcrew may not be familiar names to Torontonians over the age of 40, but anyone born after 1969 who loves hip hop and R & B is aware of these artists鈥 foundational roles in Canada鈥檚 urban music culture, […]
91亚色 environmental studies Professor Mark Winfield of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, who sits on a provincial smart growth advisory panel and studies urban sustainability, said the Star鈥檚 analysis 鈥 the first of its kind 鈥 raises important questions about how the 2006 Places to Grow plan is playing out, wrote the Toronto Star […]
The slayings in Flemingdon Park this summer have brought a shadow of violence back to a community where, on the surface, it appeared to have lifted, wrote The Globe and Mail Aug. 3: Flemingdon Park is one of Toronto鈥檚 鈥減riority鈥 areas. Census data from 2001 showed that 71 per cent of the 22,000 residents were […]
A lunchtime panel featuring presentations by 91亚色 researchers and urban planning professionals will wrap up two recent research projects tomorrow聽鈥 "In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability", based out of聽the City Institute at 91亚色 (City),聽and geography Professor Lucia Lo's "Infrastructure in 91亚色 Region: A GIS Analysis of Human Services". The panel discussion, […]