https://500px.com/embed.js I think we’ve hit peak millennial. Last Friday the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, announced that 30 subway stations will be redesigned and that “millennial-friendly amenities” would be added throughout the system. As you might guess, this includes… Read More
Two of my favorite things are snowboarding and cities. So the 4K GoPro video below, called Japan Snow – The Search for Perfection, really does it for me. The video is the journey of two GoPro athletes as they go from Tokyo to Hakuba (a… Read More
Urban infill developments can be tough. The sites are often small and/or narrow and that creates a lot of design challenges. Access to light is a common problem. But constraints can also be beautiful, because they have a way of forcing creativity. When I was… Read More
One of the things that I would like to do a bit more of in 2016 is coding. I used to a bit of it in high school and university, and I’ve taken some online classes since then, but I really feel like I should… Read More
Earlier this week, Metro News published an article saying that it’s going to be a big year for laneways in Toronto: “2016 is going to be the year where the evolution of our laneways lands at the forefront of our public realm strategy,” said Downtown… Read More
One of the things that’s becoming a lot more common in Toronto is parking stackers. For small infill sites there’s simply no other way to fit in the parking. You can’t lay out a traditional parking garage. But while it’s still relatively new for Toronto,… Read More
https://500px.com/embed.js My friend Evgeny published a great blog post today called, On Car Ownership And The Future Of Transportation. And in it he made the argument that instead of buying a car and an expensive downtown Toronto parking spot (average price: $40,000 – 60,000), most of… Read More
I may never do another “Tweet of the Week” on ATC, but I couldn’t resist sharing this one of New Year’s Eve on Well Street in Manchester’s city centre. So much going on this pic of New Year in Manchester by the Evening News. Like a… Read More
Today, myself and a few others spent the afternoon urban exploring Hamilton, Ontario with Thomas Allen of the blog, Rebuild Hamilton. If you don’t read his blog, you should. Since he started writing about 3 years ago, he has really emerged as the online voice… Read More
I was reading through PwC and ULI’s 2016 Emerging Trends in Real Estate report this evening and a handful of charts stood out to me. They’re not all related to each other, which is why this blog post is called what it is. But I… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 