Still waiting for the new Europe-Canada Alliance to be announced—also known as #EUCAN. Until then, I’m happy to see that Sweden has fully ratified CETA, the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union. – cc @greglindsay.org – cc @nickkauf.bsky.social

My gratitude to the hosts of the Unfrozen Podcast, Daniel Safarik and Greg Lindsay, for an engaging conversation about The Death and Life of Gentrification. unfrozenarch.net/episodes/117...

Surface Tensions, a project with @greglindsay.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVpX...

Shoutout to the University of Toronto's School of Cities for the stat below: mappingtariffs.org/canada-us-vi... Speaking of which, I'm delighted to announce my selection as an urbanist-in-residence at the school for the next year! schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/people/greg-...

Since @alexbozikovic.bsky.social reposted this dashed-off bit of snark, I'll unpack the flaws and elision Florida's op-ed in a thread. He opens with the anecdote below, about an American-educated "software consultant" delighted to bike-then-fly to work in NYC. Why does this matter? 1/x

Me: The Billy Bishop expansion arguments are based entirely on vibes. Richard Florida: The guy sitting next to me on the plane loves commuting to Manhattan for work, and I love walking to the airport... www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

I took my boys to see Inter @ San Siro and @veneziafc.bsky.social @ Pier Luigi Penzo last fall because both will soon be gone, like tears in rain.

Just wait until the cults.

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Saw a high school production of 12 ANGRY JURORS last night, and now I want @wychstreet.bsky.social to write an adaptation about the Musk/Altman trial.

Just pointing out there's a open clearing technically outside the Giardini's fence immediately adjacent to the Russia pavilion in case someone would like to... occupy it for the next six months? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Torontonians think my airport takes are spicy, wait until you hear my thoughts on Drake's effective takeover of my favorite team. #arancioneroverde

Discussion of the vibecession is not intended to tell you how you "should" feel, it's pointing to an important mystery involving public opinion, potentially a phenomenon that has helped wreck our entire country

As its name would suggest, nothing is more vibes-based than vibecession discourse. I could read Stancil & Darling rebuttals for days...

Someone should give Chicago Mayor Richard Daley a call and ask him if he regretted for even one second bulldozing Meigs Field. (It was blatantly illegal and a terrible precedent, but find one Chicagoan who minds, I dare you.) spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

What this @iandarragh.bsky.social piece repeats with new local stats—and great visuals—is that: There is no business case for the Billy Bishop Airport expansion. The pitch is American lobbying power and “vibes”, as @greglindsay.org once put it to The Globe’s @alexbozikovic.bsky.social.

“As the futurist and Aerotropolis co-author @greglindsay.org explained ... an airport is an important economic asset for a city; but two are generally worse than one ... ‘Anything that dilutes Pearson’s hub function risks real economic harm,’ he said.” – by @alexbozikovic.bsky.social

On my way to meet @thehalliestern.bsky.social to discuss her chilling new report on the national security risks of cognitive surrender to AI, and here are a few ads at her Metro stop.

The crucial line in the MP's reply is, "As a frequent user of Billy Bishop Airport..."

Dying on the hill that voters are less angry about inflation than shutting down the infinite-free-money-from-the-future machine in order to tamp down inflation.

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

This is great writing, a great rebuttal to vibecession stat waving, and an interesting insight into what it’s like to swim in the new sysadmin wave pool that is our lives. Short story: it sucks. – via @greglindsay.org

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

This is such a curious listen. @greglindsay.org and Daniel Safarik from Unfrozen: chat with legendary critic Paul Goldberger on Trump’s Mussolini-like architectural ambitions—and the broader implications for American democracy, urbanism, and design.

This is why last week I spoke to Greg Lindsay, co-author of Aerotropolis, who was very clear that Florida’s account of the research is wrong. bsky.app/profile/alex...

The continuum from the Toronto board of trade to ford & his ancient ideas about Niagara being “Vegas” and the same old - we don’t talk about the mediocrity of the Canadian business establishment enough & how it undermines Canada. Maybe they stink.

Tomorrow’s news today. (If today were The Onion in 2000.) theonion.com/nation-plung...

Florida's not just wrong on this score, he's totally disingenuous. He's read all the same literature I have regarding the importance of large, centralized hubs versus a constellation of smaller airports. I know because he told me himself when he agreed to *blurb my book.*

At this @bsky.app @theonion.com thing with Jeopardy's Greg "@handle.invalid" Lindsay trying to get his account reactivated. #freegreg

Would jets downtown be good for Toronto’s economy? As it turns out, no. @greglindsay.org explains the truth behind the vibes: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

What is the pro-social use of this feature.

Also, people, “I really like this charming small airport we should make it more like the one I hate” is not a smart position to take.

Had a great time dipping back into the academic literature underpinning AEROTROPOLIS to explain to The Globe and Mail's @alexbozikovic.bsky.social why expanding Toronto's Billy Bishop is purely vibes-based and would be a mistake. #makepearsongreatagain www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Not a single city in the world is expanding a downtown airport right now. Not one. All of this is rationalization for the fact that executives like having an airport that nobody else uses. Textbook elite capture.

Excellent title: The Screen Killed the City. I’m jealous I couldn’t be in Vancouver for this. I promise I’ll visit one day.

My favorite talk of the fall, and it isn't close. Thanks again to WRLDCTY for having me! youtu.be/Pz3w7IQnVmQ?...

Is our language so impoverished that we have to use acronyms of French phrases to make ourselves understood, Charlie Brown? Yes.

Only 40%?! Try harder, Chicago.

Congratulations Rafi Segal and Marisa Morán Jahn! On the Holcim Foundation Grand Prize in Europe: for Art-Tek Tulltorja. A former brick factory turns art and science hub and cornerstone of urban revival in Kosovo’s Pristina. – via @glindsay.bsky.social

My book North: The Future of Post-Climate America is moving up the Amazon Books rankings (and its not even out yet). Want to hear more? Check-out my conversation with @glindsay.bsky.social and Daniel Safarik on Unfrozen (podcast) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlKV...

The only thing smart in my house is a TV because I was not given a choice in the matter. Modem televisions are near impossible to get without smart features.

You were right back then and it’s only gotten harder to find appliances that aren’t connected. I assume the ability to sell consumer data as an additional revenue stream is irresistible to corporations.

I remember being so excited abt IoT, I was 20, starry-eyed and only worried about privacy in the context of Facebook. I still like the idea of home automation and power use graphs! But the execution of it all bore horrors i couldn’t have conceived of back then…

[email protected] coined "luxury surveillance" to describe the devil's bargain of smart glasses and AI+AR (AIR). Read my interview with him in "The Augmented City" to learn what we can do about it: urban.tech.cornell.edu/the-augmente...

Nearly a decade ago, my @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social colleagues and I warned that smart homes were a gigantic attack surface for cyberattacks and malware. And we weren't remotely the first to do so. www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

Maybe I've been here too long already, but where is the Quebecois reboot of Smokey and the Bandit the moment is clearly calling for? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...