In case you hadn’t checked recently, there are, according to the Toronto Parking Authority’s very helpful “Find Parking” map, ...

What the f*#k is a software developer doing on a housing panel? It’s not the kind of question I usually entertain, but when a friend sent it to me while scrolling through an event listing, I had to ...

HALIFAX – In honour of Earth Day, Halifax Regional Municipality has planned a series of activities which are sure to appease your inner pedestrian ...

As the primary paths of access and circulation, streets play an extremely important role in any city – ancient and new. With this in mind, the ...

A series that examines urban and architectural issues in Halifax by way of unbuilt proposals authored by different designers, this week featuring a ...

Last week, with the Jarvis Street lane reduction still front and centre, we looked at the big strides New York is taking in increasing its bicycling ...

Several weeks ago, the members of Bridging the Design Gap, an informal design charette, posed the question: ‘when is a bridge more than just a ...

Looking west down Queen Street At eleven yesterday morning I learned that Global television wanted to interview me, an arborist, about the late changing ...

Author: Alain de Botton (Pantheon, 2006) I recently found myself speechless after a follower of my writing asked me why I’ve never addressed beauty ...

The City of Toronto has been named a “role model city” by the United Nations Environment Program for Supporting Urban Ecosystems. It’s part of an initiative the UN calls “Generation Restoration,” part ...

Here’s a shocker: Save and except a two-line statement, the Mayor of Toronto had nothing whatsoever to say about the Conservative government’s Titanic ...

How does one know if the main street running through a neighbourhood, or on a route to work, is becoming more congested?