Is this really a sustainable retail development? While developers and retailers alike may think customers require excessive amounts of parking, changes in demographics and consumer preferences may prove otherwise. Image from the ICSC International Outlet Journal, […]
I have been helping to organize an event held by the City of Toronto called the Chief Planner Roundtable. One of the common themes emerging from these discussions is how the design of our suburbs is not […]
We are facing a serious housing affordability crisis in Canadian cities and few people seem to care. Worse, the policy responses floated as solutions are often ineffective and detached from the realities of urban economies. In […]
On a camping trip last summer I drove through a desolate main street in a small Ontario town looking for a place to pick up beer. The whole street was being ripped up for a beautification […]
The Gruen Effect, a documentary on the life of Victor Gruen, the so-called father of shopping malls, provides interesting insights into the birth of a development concept that reshaped America. In Vienna, Victor Gruen was involved […]