city planning

Near empty streets are pictured in downtown Vancouver on Apr. 6, 2020. (Jonathan Hayward/CP)

Should our lives be centred around our neighbourhoods post-coronavirus?

Jennifer Keesmaat: For too long, we’ve accepted the burden of long commutes as a part of modern living. It’s time to rethink our cities and invest in neighbourhoods, where residents can get around on bike and foot.

The municipal ‘innovation’ hustle

John Lorinc: What will Torontonians get from the Civic Innovation Office in 2020? Or is ‘innovation’ just another buzz word?

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What kind of cities do we really want?

Plus, a memoir about accidentally killing a cyclist, an exhaustive Paul McCartney bio, an inventive new fantasy novel, the arms race historians forgot, and a commune for therapists