20” of new snow in Park City over the last 48 hours

Same post: Twitter vs. Bluesky. And this is with 10x the amount of followers on Twitter.

Urbanism > architecture

One of my biggest takeaways from living in Tokyo was that the city is incredible in spite of the fact that 95% of the architecture is unremarkable. It makes the years-long design review process for a single apartment building in the U.S. seem all the more frivolous.

Tokyo is a city that makes the argument that architecture is irrelevant. What matters more is urbanism: The street network The density The freedom of uses The clustering around rail

The world has a new biggest city. The UN’s 2025 World Urbanization Prospects report has reshuffled the global rankings, placing Jakarta at the top. brandondonnelly.com/the-world-ha...

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How 300,000 commuters built a retail destination — Why retail at Toronto's Union Station was inevitable brandondonnelly.com/how-300000-c...

Congestion pricing is working as expected in New York City. Here's why. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/h...

Hi. Totally forgot about this platform.

Monday's Most Read # 3 - Toronto is planning for a post-car future link.theoverheadwire.com/7ayn8 @brandondonnelly.bsky.social

Join this Panel at Oct 17th 9am at the CanU Forum: CHA[lle]NGE! Moderated by Mark Guslits & Eric Turcotte @urbstrat.bsky.social Featuring @brandondonnelly.bsky.social , Mary W. Rowe @canurb.bsky.social , Joe Berridge, Julie Di Lorenzo, Vic Gupta 🔗 www.canu.ca/registration...

As a general rule, I am much more interested in longer-term thinking, an approach that compounds over time, the opportunity to continually refine a craft, and the growth of brand equity. brandondonnelly.com/platform-gre...

Ground floor overhangs like this are one of my least favorite urban conditions. They bear no resemblance to the colonnades of Europe.

Talking to a friend from Korea right now. He’s telling me about a suburb of Seoul that used to be a 1.5 hour commute from the city center. This was deemed too long so a new express train was created. It now takes 20 minutes. Boom. The magic of rail.

The numbers don't work in Cambridge brandondonnelly.com/the-numbers-...

Thanks for the share @brandondonnelly.bsky.social This would be a pretty cool project @jamaps.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social to replicate for #BikeShareTO All sorts of wow @agordon.me

Looking back at the Toronto real estate market in the 90s brandondonnelly.com/looking-back...

It's painful watching Toronto saddle new homebuyers and those struggling to afford to live in Toronto with the cost of renaming Dundas Square, which definitely was not *critical infrastructure.*

Today's blog post: In 2005, 21 of 26 single-family house markets in Southern Ontario could have been classified as either affordable or deeply affordable. Today, none of these markets can be considered affordable or deeply affordable, and 11 are now unattainable. brandondonnelly.com/housing-is-e...

The Liberals just announced that, if elected, they will form a new entity called Building Canada Homes (BCH) which will, "get the federal government back in the business of building homes." Do governments make good developers? brandondonnelly.com/do-governmen...

What housing type (single-family, townhouse, apartment, etc) have you lived in the most throughout your life? (Working on a new blog post.)

The silver lining to the US starting a trade war with Canada and regularly threatening annexation is that it has forced this country out of complacency. brandondonnelly.com/canada-must-...

The other night, I went down a Parisian real estate rabbit hole on Twitter. And one of the things that kept coming up was this half joke: The biggest developer in Paris today is the mayor. brandondonnelly.com/the-biggest-...

It's also important to keep in mind that the risks you worry about the most will invariably change throughout the course of each real estate cycle. brandondonnelly.com/the-developm...

But it's still not clear that he understands how these tariffs will work. Either that, or he's lying and trying to trick people. brandondonnelly.com/tariffs-%E2%...

Happy Monday from One Delisle

I'm a real estate developer with @globizen.bsky.social. I also write a daily blog about city building that I've been doing since 2013: brandondonnelly.com

Warren Buffett on how tariffs work:

Last year I was going around telling everyone that we would have glass up on the building in the first quarter of this year, and so I'm really glad that I was not made out to be a liar. Thanks team. This is a milestone date. brandondonnelly.com/first-curtai...

When Mike Myers wore his "Canada Is Not For Sale" t-shirt on SNL, he mouthed a secret code: "elbows up." It's a reference to the great Gordie "Mr. Elbows" Howe who punished those that messed with his team. You heard him Canada: elbows up. If anyone asks why, tell them that Mike Myers sent you.

Lucy, thank you for your bravery. brandondonnelly.com/snow-report-...

Nowhere in the US are apartment rents declining as fast as they have in Austin. Average rents are down 22% from their August 2023 peak. brandondonnelly.com/apartment-re...

Great article by @brandondonnelly.bsky.social Where are the Data Centres in METRO Vancouver? Where will the next ones go? And how do we manage all that energy and heat waste? brandondonnelly.com/data-center-...

Exciting news: Toronto has hired Jason Thorne as its new chief planner. He’s here: @jasonthorne.bsky.social

Stop with suburban setbacks - where @brandondonnelly.bsky.social sums up some thoughts on how to make suburban arterials more humane. brandondonnelly.com/stop-with-th...

I’ve been writing about cities every day for over 11 years. This week I moved on chain and switched from Wordpress to @paragraph. Check it out: brandondonnelly.com

Louis Vuitton’s Big Duck brandondonnelly.com/2024/11/19/l...

[Blog] What happens when Uber doesn’t have to pay its drivers? brandondonnelly.com/2024/11/18/w...

And it's not like Threads hasn't been spamming all of our IG timelines.

Sometimes the US can feel painfully insular. Like, they're totally unfamiliar with the concept that somebody might reside elsewhere in the world.

Which one to use?

The busiest bike route in Paris has already seen nearly 4.4 million trips this year. That's something. brandondonnelly.com/2024/11/17/p...

Mountain towns are making the shift to year-round living. This includes ski-in, ski-out schools for the kids. Amazing.

The orange cat of Craven Rd in #toronto

Canal Saint-Martin, 16 novembre.

We need more counters

What an impact zone