This morning I came across the below graph in a Medium article by Eric Jaffe of Sidewalk Labs. It is taken from a research paper by Elisabeth Ruth Perlman called, Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America. What this… Read More
A few weeks ago I received a community meeting notice in the mail for a new development happening in my neighborhood. I am excited about the project and so I immediately put it in my calendar and told myself: “I’m going to this.” But then a… Read More
The New York Times has an interesting article up talking about the possible impacts of climate change on coastal real estate in the United States. In it they make the argument that sales velocity is declining in flood-prone areas. Here are two snippets: Over the… Read More
Facebook, as part of their internet.org initiative, is working on bringing internet access to people in rural areas all across the world. For obvious socioeconomic reasons, this is an important initiative. From a business standpoint, it also grows the base of potential Facebook users at… Read More
I just want to do a quick follow-up to my recent post about the momentum currently developing around laneway housing here in Toronto. In the post, I mentioned that two councillors have come out in support of this housing typology. However, I neglected to mention… Read More
I took this picture on a recent trip to New York: I liked the mid-block building and so I wanted to document it. That’s what I do when I walk around a city. When I went back to research the project later on, I then… Read More
When I wrote yesterday’s post about road tolls, it hadn’t been announced that Toronto Mayor John Tory was going to call for road tolls on both of the highways coming into downtown. That didn’t leak until late in the evening. So I was just writing another… Read More
Following the Toronto Transit Commission’s approval of a 10-cent fare hike, Cherise Burda of the Ryerson City Building Institute penned an article titled: It’s time for Toronto to consider road tolls. I am a big supporter of road pricing and I have written a lot… Read More
The Spaces has a post up called: 7 carriage houses on the market in New York City. They’re all quite expensive. The house on East 63rd designed by Paul Rudolph is particularly interesting. But that’s not what I want to talk about. As I was… Read More
This is a terrific set of maps published by The Washington Post (2015) using data originally collected and published by Peter Kerpedjiev: What they show is how far you can travel in a 24 hour period using only trains and brisk walking from a collection of… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 