Doing nothing to the Gardiner is too costly – By Fred

Doing nothing to the Gardiner is too costly – By Fred
Post Date April 17, 2013
Comments 2 Comments
Author
Category Cities, Municipalities

On April 15, Calvin Brook, an urban designer and planner with Brook McIlroy and Dr Eric Miller, a civil engineering professor at the University of Toronto, led our discussion on the state and future of the Gardiner Expressway. The issues at stake are transportation and urban design.
We started with a litany of facts: at peak times a lane on the Gardiner carries 2000 cars per hour, with 1.2 people per car, and three lanes in each direction. So we get to about 7200 people per …

Read More »

Condos and Consumers – Blog by Chris E

Post Date March 02, 2012
Comments 4 Comments
Author
Category Cities, Uncategorized

Our homes are our castles, or so we hope. But when it comes to this city´s condos, there is clearly work to be done.

This past Monday, one of the largest crowds I´ve witnessed at a WSIC event squeezed its way into the Duke of York pub, just to hear Trinity-Spadina MPP Rosario Marchese give his thoughts on the state of the condo business in Toronto. The evening proved a lively one, too.

That´s partly because Marchese goes way back on the condo issue. He opened the …

Read More »

Notes from Infrastructure Talk

Post Date January 25, 2012
Comments 0 Comments
Author
Category Cities

How much will you sacrifice for fashion? It´s a question we all ask, especially in the winter. But we aren´t usually thinking about architecture at the time.

Dr. Kim Pressnail, this month´s WSIC guest speaker, made it clear that when it comes to building requirements in this province, form and function are seriously out of balance. And he had a lot of ideas about how to right them.

There are two big reasons to reduce energy use, he explained. The first is cost: it´s cheaper to conserve …

Read More »
Newer Entries »