urban planning
Coronavirus has highlighted Canada’s biggest urban design challenge—elevators
In cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, where condo dwellers and office-goers rely on elevators as the first and last leg of their commutes, a ride on the lift has become a risk rather than an inconvenience
Q&A: How Ottawa bungled its plan for a new monument
In conversation with urban design guru Larry Beasley on the lessons we can learn from Ottawa’s plans for the victims of communism memorial
Why we should all be tree-huggers
Infographic: More trees on your block could improve your health as much as a $20,000 increase in income
Abandon the foolish ‘war on the car.’ It’s holding back our cities.
The proposed redesign of Montreal’s Saint Catherine Street is innovative, needed—and a sign the driver-vs.-pedestrian rhetoric is tired.
Toronto’s traffic time bomb: Is it too late to fix?
The impact of the Pan Am Games is real, even if local interest is low. Can Toronto’s roads handle an event nearly three times bigger than the Winter Olympics?
The Editorial: B.C.’s wacky transit referendum might work
Christy Clark’s transit referendum is an opportunity to do some civic homework
Seeking architectural salvation in Edmonton
Is Edmonton’s crumbling McDougall Church really worth rescuing?
Fort McMurray: Even boom towns have budgets
There’s a gleaming new airport in the city that oil built. But step outside, and it’s a wasteland of poor planning and low ambitions
Campus life at the University of Alberta
A photographic tour of the Edmonton campus
Vertical development: A dense idea
It turns out cramming more people into cities won’t help the environment or our health, and may even hurt the economy