If you love cities, then I’m willing to bet you probably also love maps. I just stumbled across a neat tool called Map Stack. It was created by San Francisco-based Stamen Design—probably one of the leaders in beautiful maps. The tool is one part Photoshop… Read More
Last week I provided a few suggestions for how architects might be able to transition over to real estate development. And I ended by saying that I loved architecture school, but that it could use a few more business and entrepreneurship classes. Today, I’d liked… Read More
If you had to pick one, which city would you consider to be the “capital of the world?” There are no other instructions. Just select whatever first comes to mind. If for whatever reason you can’t see the poll below, click here. If you’re curious… Read More
I woke up this morning in the City of London, Ontario, to a parking ticket. Apparently, I had committed an infraction by parking between the hours of 3:00 am – 5:00 am. Here’s what the sign looked like, directly in front of my car. There… Read More
A few years ago during a class at the Rotman School when we were all introducing ourselves, I had a professor ask why all architects seem to want to become developers. He asked it because there were 3 architects (or at least architect-trained) in the… Read More
Here’s a great video by Streetfilms that shows the incredible transformation of New York’s public realm during the Bloomberg administration. I found it via The Urbanophile blog. It’s about 5 minutes long. Video Description: “There’s nothing more dramatic than looking back five or ten years… Read More
More and more people are moving to cities. This much we know. But in our fast paced world, census data is becoming increasingly limited in its ability to tell us exactly where and how people are moving. Thankfully we now have Facebook. I just discovered… Read More
There’s an interesting article in Forbes (from last week) called, “Invest in the Disruptors of the Real Estate Industry.” It’s by Ross Gerber who runs a wealth and investment management firm out of LA called Gerber Kawasaki. He’s also a fellow Penn alum. I like… Read More
Two days ago I posted a neat interactive map of carbon footprints across America. It was taken from an Atlantic Cities article. But in the same post, I questioned the (Atlantic Cities) article’s headline and main assertion that increasing population density won’t help to curb greenhouse gas… Read More
The Globe and Mail published an article yesterday morning called, “Why a lower loonie is (mostly) good for Canada.” It talks about the recent decline of the Canadian dollar from parity last May to roughly USD $0.92 today. But that the drop is essentially because… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 