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Yes. My point is that very little transit has been built since the 1980s. Vancouver is arguably an exception. The 1990s was particularly bad, which is understandable given the issues with debt. HOWEVER, the fact that so little transit has been built in the last 40 years is a clear sign that the...

Every Canadian city with a transit system built a handful of extensions throughout the 90s and 00s. That's the point. Most city-led initiatives are so hard to plan and fund that they end up producing just a few extensions here and there. The desire to build is there, but the process undermines...

https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2022/09/ontario-line-big-step-forward-torontos-relief-line-successor Really jealous at how quickly the Ontario Line is proceeding. It was announced out of nowhere in 2019 and they already have shovels in the ground. It's a totally different game when the provincial...

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It's really annoying when a single developer owns so much land. It almost always paralyzes them. It's the same deal over at Westbrook station. Thank god the East Village was broken into smaller lots.

I really don't get the hate for this building. Is it the look or the height? We focus on NIMBYism that fights density in residential neighbourhoods. But North American downtowns have the opposite problem. They're filled with empty lots that sit there for decades due to lack of demand for...

Between this project, Park Central, and Oliver, 4th street is on the cusp of becoming the Beltline's first real north-south high street. In fact, running from Prince's Island to the Elbow river, through Eau Claire, Downtown, the Beltline, and Mission, hitting an LRT station, the Core, Stephen...

There goes what could possibly be the last of the 80s-era faux-1950s retro-style cafes in the city a la The Max on Saved by the Bell or The Peach Pit on 90210.

This is the crux of it. Quebec separatism is tied to the fact that it was a separate French society that was conquered and subordinated by the British Empire. But Alberta separatism tends to boil down to an economic argument: we're the richest, so we're better off on our own. But, of course...

Yes, let's do compare Calgary and Vancouver when it comes to urban grocery availability, Richard: Just to be clear, these maps are at the same scale. Also, what isn't quite obvious is that almost all of the red markers (and some of the blue) on the Vancouver map are actual grocery stores. In...

There was a night market held on 34 Ave earlier in the summer. I overheard one of the developers say that they wanted to clean up the front of the building in time for the market to help demonstrate their vision to the rest of the community. It really shows a rare attention to detail and...

The proportions are all off. Makes you realize how difficult the Beaux-Arts tradition of architecture actually was. It was more than "slap some ornamentation on a box". It was, "make sure the building's layout, structure, and ornamentation all cohere into a harmonious totality". It probably...

How do things like this even happen?

Actually, I'm a lot less optimistic about the global food supply in the coming decades, and we really should be prioritizing robustness of the system rather than specialization and efficiency (especially in places with reliable access to water). But even if food supply wasn't an issue, there are...

Apologies if that came off as accusatory. It was merely a defence of the Greenbelt in general, since it has come under fire on this message board. Growing up in the GTA, I spent my entire life seeing this get turned into this. Meanwhile quality of life had declined precipitously as people spend...

They’re not equivalent. One of those policies protects a vulnerable ecosystem and some of the best farmland in the country. The other policy protects McMansions. And the protections around the McMansions have proven far more effective than those around the farmland and forests.

That's the kind of comment that will get you an angry mob of boomers marching to your front door. (Not that I disagree!) Sorry. Never know whether to call these kinds of streets "one lane" or "two lane".

Almost every mid-rise building in South Calgary/Marda Loop has been built on a slope and pretty much all of them have executed it better than Harrison. Examples: A, B, C, D.