Daily insights for city builders, delivered every morning at 6 AM ET. I’m Brandon Donnelly — a Toronto-based real estate developer and founder of Globizen. I’ve been writing here since 2013.

  • Simply put, urban centers are no longer the poster children for decay and despair; they have, in fact, become the country’s economic engines.

    Richard Florida

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  • 70 Carlton St – Dirt.

    My favourite new building proposed for Toronto (by Tribute Communities).

    70 Carlton St – Dirt.

  • Why do people share?

    In the Facebook social media sense, why do people share?

    1. To craft a personalized identity
    2. To build relationships
    3. To help themselves
    4. To help others

    What do you think? Agree?

  • Loving my new iHome music block. Great work Isaac. with Isaac – View on Path.

  • n-architektur:

    Wohnhaus mit Atrium, Trier

    denzer & poensgen

  • subtilitas:

    EM2N – Restoration of the viaduct arches, Zurich 2010. A great urban renewal project that breathes new life to a previously derelict infrastructural barrier. Photos (C) Roger Frei.

  • thedsgnblog:

    Windows of New York   |    http://windowsofnewyork.com

    “The Windows of New York project is a weekly illustrated fix for an obsession that has increasingly grown in me since chance put me in this town. A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the city. This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up.”

    José Guizar is a Mexican graphic designer in New York City. Driven by curiosity and a constant desire to learn and evolve –among other more material things, of course–, I’m a devoted pursuer of the well-rounded designer utopia. I strive to create playful, clever, yet strong messages that let others communicate, and let me play entertainer.

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    Windows of NYC

  • surfacemag:

    The Mem chair by French designer Christophe Pillet for Kristalia.