CITY & SUBURBAN TRENDS: SOMETIMES IT HELPS TO LOOK AT THE DATA Jonathan Weber writes that "Most demographic and market indicators suggest that growth and development across the country are moving away from the suburban and exurban fringe and toward center-cities and close-in suburbs," in an article for MSNBC ...

I couldn't help writing about the crazy thing I saw today. While staying out of the labour dispute. (Best assessment in my opinion is in a comment on Mr. Schnurr's site ...

Back on May 14, the symposium Urban Mediations took place at Artcite.  It was a fantastic, day-long forum with some well-respected speakers (including Steven Logan from Carbusters magazine) on the agenda. I didn't have much space left in my audio recorder, so I chose to ...

I thought for sure that Mark was going to include this news item in his weekly Monday news roundup, since it was him that sent it to me! I agreed with his comment - "This is important stuff!!!" So here it is. Sheesh! Do I have to do everything around here? ...

It's been a while since I've posted (Congratulations Chris on successfully goading me out of hiding) so, this might get a little rambly. I listened to Jeff Rubin on CBC's the Current today.  He said we should prepare for the end of our current "Barrista Economy".  Barrista Economy, I ...

Getting ready for the Blogger meetup tonight, I was looking at some Windsor blogs Maybe because I've had a spurt of blogger activism lately, I noticed. Seems like some of my favorite bloggers are posting less although there's plenty of great regulars too many to mention without ...

Transit hubs to shape urban pocket in Markham It's a long way from California to Markham, but not for Peter Calthorpe, who has made the trip to design what could be the most vital project of his career. The influential San Francisco architect, author, planner and co-founder of the Congress ...