Last month, Curated Properties submitted a rezoning and site plan application for a 6-storey, 25-unit building at 45 Dovercourt Road in Toronto. The project is known to the market as Cabin and you can register for it now. The project immediately caught my attention (because… Read More
A few weeks ago I wrote a post talking about megalopolises and the importance of the Great Lakes region in North America. And I suggested that high speed rail could be one way to better stitch together the region. To some, I’m sure this sounded… Read More
Today I spent the afternoon watching volleyball as part of the 2015 Pan Am Games. I saw Brazil and Uruguay play. I saw Canada and Mexico play (Canada unfortunately lost, but it was a great game). And I saw USA and Argentina play (shown above).… Read More
Since 2009 when the U.S. economy started to recover, housing starts (i.e. new residential construction) have favored multifamily buildings over single family housing. Apartment/condominium construction has grown 3 times faster according to the U.S. Census Bureau (via Bloomberg). A lot of this multifamily construction is… Read More
Taxi by Roland R. on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js Early this morning Peter Cheney of the Globe and Mail published an article called: How Uber is ending the dirty dealings behind Toronto’s cab business. And I highly recommend you read it. He’s been investigating this industry for… Read More
Back in February of this year (2015), Philip Oldfield, who is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Nottingham, gave the following talk at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Click here if you can’t see it below. If you’re interested in cities and how… Read More
This morning venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote a post on his blog talking about the gig economy and Hillary Clinton’s economic speech last night. Here’s a snippet from Clinton’s talk: Meanwhile, many Americans are making extra money renting out a small room, designing websites, selling… Read More
the traffic jam by Phoebe Eve on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js In 1968, Garrett Hardin wrote an article where he coined the term: the tragedy of the commons. Hardin was an American ecologist who was obsessed and concerned with the prospect of human overpopulation. In his article,… Read More
Gangi, Palermo – Sicily by Claudio Siragusa on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js Buy real estate. It always goes up. That’s the mantra, right? Few things in life are that black and white. A small town in Sicily called Gangi is in the midst of a novel urban… Read More
This morning I got up at 7:30am and met a good friend of mine at the St. Lawrence Market for breakfast. Market Street is closed to cars today so it’s pedestrian-only. It should be this way all the time. They had a pig roasting on… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 