Recent content by Silence&Motion

For the life of me, I cannot understand why Country Hills Blvd. and 60 Street NE are so wide. They're only actually 4 lanes, but they're 50m wide! Is this the City or the developer at fault?

I think we're in the middle of a housing affordability crisis that is mostly affecting younger and poorer people. Older, wealthier people who already own homes are the main demographic cohort standing in the way of solutions. I'm sure if we had a plebiscite, rezoning would lose. However, I also...

What? I for one am eager to learn more about what their great aunt's ass thinks about people who don't drive mercedes.

You really see the lag in apartments. What's going on there? IIRC there was more high rise development in this city during the oil crash of the late 2010s.

Only renderporn.

Google maps? Check. MLS? Check. DMAP? Check. SRC? Check. Anti-NIMBY youtube video? Check. Looks like a regulation urbanist desktop to me.

The US Census Bureau definitely defines metro areas at much larger scales than Statistics Canada. Case in point: metro Chicago is 28000 km2 (holding just over 9 million people). Metro Toronto, on the other hand, is only 6000 km2 and holds 6 million people. The "Greater Golden Horseshoe" is...

You could fill libraries with the amount of research that has been done on the root causes of homelessness, as well as the best policy responses to existing homelessness. I'd start with Homelesshub.ca, which is an excellent resource...

This is maddening. Do you have a link to the report by any chance?

Finally taking advantage of of the "ignore" button on this forum rather than falling for argument bait.

Oof. Only 19 cranes in the middle of a massive population surge. Very frustrating.

It seems like there's no chance 10th street will ever improve given its position within the larger road network. That's why it's nice that we're starting to see "main streets" develop on smaller, non-commuter roads like 19st in Hillhurst and 33/34 ave in Marda Loop where the need to push through...

Looks pretty car sewery to me. But it was nice of the City to give pedestrians a good 2 - maybe 2.5 - feet to squeeze between the utility polls and buildings. Kensington would be much, much more pleasant if 10th street wasn't a major car route in and out of downtown.

This reminds me of the kind of development that made Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood such an attractive place in the 1970s/80s. Small scale, mixed-use infills that take advantage of existing architecture rather than knocking it all down and starting from scratch. To some extent, Calgary's...