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Live/Work Space in the Post-Covid Age

Through five thousand years of urban living, people have lived over the shop. Mostly because it was the only possible arrangement.

Advertising the Automobile

Up until 1997, it was legal in Canada to advertise cigarettes. The ads that I remember from childhood consistently promised the smoker...

The Useful Walk... To A Neighbourhood Shop

The unrelenting segregation of housing from retail that characterized post WWII planning, left people with no destination for a useful walk.

Training Wheels for Walkable Neighbourhoods: Why We Need Transitional Parking

"You can't just jump on a bicycle for the first time and go for a ride! It's time for Walkable Neighbourhood Training Wheels."

Density and Infill: A Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

Are dark looming towers and cold apartment blocks the only way forward? Could it be possible that a simple solution, a win for all, is...

The Death of Retail has been Greatly Exaggerated

I’m told we’re witnessing the Third Great Extinction of Retail. First, Shopping Malls killed the Main Street stores. Then Big Boxes...

When You Wish Upon a Driverless Car

The advent of Autonomous Vehicles promises to put us all in a state of perpetual toddlerhood, sitting in the back seat playing Candy Crush..

Can planting trees make a city more equitable?

Cities across the U.S. are pledging to plant trees and restore urban forests to combat climate change and cool off disadvantaged communities

Copenhagen's Walkable City Model

Copenhagen is well on the way to becoming the world's first truly walkable city. Read more about how they accomplished this. READ MORE

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