Merry Christmas from Rio de Janeiro. Even though I am still practicing my daily blogging ritual, this is about the only time of the year where I find it’s possible to “disconnect” a little. So hopefully you’re doing a bit of that yourself and spending time… Read More
This morning I watched the sun rise from the the roof of Ten York Condominiums, some 735 feet up. This is what that looked like (the sky initially had a purple hue to it): It was cold as all hell, but sometimes you have to… Read More
Tonight I went a photography heli tour with @normandthegang. I took almost 500 photos, including a bunch of aerials of our development sites. And we got lucky with a pretty spectacular pink sunset. Here is a photo that I took of the CN Tower with… Read More
The City of London Corporation recently published a report called “The City as a Place for People”, which talks primarily about itself and how great London is as a magnet for talent. But as self-serving as it may be – the report is timed to… Read More
My friend Ben Stevens runs a blog called Skyline where he interviews people involved in the built environment (architecture, real estate, planning, and so on). You might remember that I did an episode with him about a year ago where we talked about the overlap… Read More
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on New Urbanism, I thought I would post an interesting video discussion between Andrés Duany and Ben Stevens. Duany is the father of New Urbanism and Stevens runs a great blog called The Skyline Forum where he interviews notable… Read More
Today’s ATC post – which happens to be a guest post – is coming to you live from on board the UP Express train that runs from Union Station in downtown Toronto to Pearson Airport. (Everywhere should have free wifi.) I’m on my way to… Read More
Vancouver BC City Skyline and Stanley Park by Jit Lim on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js In the comment section of my post about Vancouver’s transit referendum, a reader suggested I take a look at an article by Peter McMartin called, The real Vancouver emerges (from the ruins of… Read More
This video of Toronto has been making the rounds online over the past few days (click here if you can’t see it below): //player.vimeo.com/video/112944154 It was created by 25-year-old filmmaker Ryan Emond and the aerial shots were filmed using a drone. He also made this… Read More
Before visiting Chicago for the first time, everybody told me that I was going to love the city. They would tell me that it’s similar to Toronto, except that it has better architecture and a better waterfront. Having now visited the city, I not surprisingly… Read More
