These guys are ready to vandalize the centre of the country‘s biggest city, destroy 25 years of policy and endanger billions in public investment. Everything they say about economic interests is made up.

This park is the dumbest idea. Demolishing a building to create a park with poor adjacencies and a gas station across the street. It's going to cost tens of millions. No one will use it. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Toronto's response on the Island Airport is weak sauce. Chow and Malik should be saying: "Here is our 25-year-old shared vision of a clean, green waterfront for people. It's the right thing. Let's do that." Instead: procedural whining. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Airport guys don’t give a damn whether you choke on fumes. This is why we shouldn’t let specific business interests dominate the physical city.

Montreal makes an extraordinary public building. Sanaaq Centre is a place to read, rest, and eat together. My rave review: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Montreal makes an extraordinary public building. Sanaaq Centre is a place to read, rest, and eat together. My rave review: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ford "accused the city of approving tall condos in the future flight path of the jets on purpose." Completely unhinged. This is the premier who ran on delivering housing. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The stupidity and destructiveness of this move cannot be overstated. If the Liberals go along with it, it will be to their everlasting shame. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The opposition is wrong. Schools can and should be redeveloped into new buildings that combine schools with housing. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/21/t...

And if this were Toronto, the board of trade would be complaining about how hard it is to drive to their offices across the street.

Inarguably a great idea for Toronto

A brutal (but seemingly fair) decapitation of OMA’s New Museum addition @hawthorne.bsky.social www.punchlistmag.com/p/review-the...

Good work from Toronto planning, but true climate action would be intensifying the city instead of making more people move to Milton and drive everywhere

Thanks to Hell Gate for reaching out to me for a response! Here’s my Q&A with them. hellgatenyc.com/abundance-ag...

Absolutely begging Toronto architects to stop with these ridiculous overscaled graphic cladding motifs.

For 150 years Toronto has cut itself off from its lakefront, with huge social, cultural and economic consequences. This keeps happening. The central waterfront of a 21c city is not a place for industry and dirty infrastructure. Why did the three gov's create @waterfrontoronto.bsky.social anyway?

This book is bonkers and was incredibly dangerous. Its xenophobia shaped hippie opposition to all sorts of change in cities.

More island airport discourse: a Star story that uncritically quotes the cheerleading of Richard Florida, who’s been paid by the airport www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

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.*

More island airport discourse: a Star story that uncritically quotes the cheerleading of Richard Florida, who’s been paid by the airport www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

The 2017 environmental assessment on jets at the Toronto Island airport is now public. Maps of proposed landfill and of maximum building heights, which would interfere with purpose development in the port lands.

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...

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...

Here’s the Toronto establishment coming to bat for their boutique airport. Not a stitch of evidence that this expansion would generate economic benefit, but they’re going to keep saying it until it destroys the actual asset: an attractive waterfront www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

This from the mayor of Mississauga raises so many questions.

This - Mirvish Village in Toronto - is an excellent example of “break up the massing“ but it would be better as a series of truly separate buildings Henriquez Partners Architects

one weird trick to make new buildings 100x better looking

Toronto’s progressive newspaper and Liberal MP’s rolling over for the permanent desecration of Toronto’s waterfront. @juliedzerowicz.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

This is a push poll, by the notorious Conservative operative Nick Kouvalis, that the government has leaked to the Star www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

This gov is trying to reorient Canada away from U.S. trade. But also: spending $30m to speed U.S. flights for 4% of Toronto passengers. Elbows up, or whatever www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New ideas need old buildings. In today’s @globeandmail I showcase a vision for Toronto’s Old City Hall as a space for contemporary culture - opening this year. Let’s go. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A win for Toronto and coffee and Dan. 👏

New ideas need old buildings. In today’s @globeandmail I showcase a vision for Toronto’s Old City Hall as a space for contemporary culture - opening this year. Let’s go. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Beautiful world cup architecture incoming, 40m Canadian dollars of scaffolding.

Dimanno: Tory should have gotten away with sleeping with a subordinate because Toronto Star managers used to do that kind of thing all the time. ????????? www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Yet *another* terrible Doug Ford idea for Toronto's waterfront, with generous coverage via a government leak to @robertbenzie.bsky.social. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

What a clown show. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.” It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!

This is why journalists should not be friends with the people they cover. It‘s embarrassing for all concerned. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

It’s weird to hear the co-op sector keep claiming that they generate affordability. That’s because government paid for the buildings! It’s not magic. nowtoronto.com/news/housing...

"When you’re talking about convention centres there’s no such thing as the efficient use of public money." @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social www.tvo.org/article/anal...

John Tory wanted everyone to like him and be nice to him and not bring up anything awkward. This meant no vision, no direction, just avoiding the ire of talk radio and Rosedale. His clearest agenda items were too-low taxes and a bogus transit plan that died. Some legacy. x.com/NEWSTALK1010...

Vague, endlessly verbose, self-pitying: John Tory’s statement. He’s not running.

Are conventions so valuable? The main business of Toronto's Exhibition Place is conventions, and they claimed $600-million a year in economic impact. On 192 acres of land in the middle of a prosperous city. That is not a lot of money. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

How many times will @thestar.com repeat this false number about the Ontario Science Centre? It is not 400,000 SF. It is less than 300,000. The old building is 568,000. This is aggressive and transparent spin from the government. www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

The institutional buildings of 1960s Canada were extraordinarily well-built. Throwing them away would be madness. The 1969 Science Centre is an incredible piece of architecture. It needs some work. The new building complex is a kludge that will be inferior by any measure.

Forget the drawings. This is a flawed project being sold with false claims. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The Ford gov has made several false claims about the Ontario Science Centre. Here is the Toronto Star repeating them: www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Forget the drawings. This is a flawed project being sold with false claims. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

If you freeze buildings from changing, rich people just take up more space. An extreme version of what is happening across wealthy cities