As a rule, the planning and design professions are statistically illiterate.

Large subsets, like architecture and planning, are also innumerate.

Be extremely skeptical of any quantitative guidelines issued by these professions. They usually rest on weak or absurd evidence.

There has been a lot of attention lately with new home sales cratering, so I thought I'd add to the texture of that conversation a bit.

In discussions with friends and peers in consultancy and legal firms, development companies, and municipal organizations - nearly all have

Two questions:

Are you Canadian?

Which is more important, individual freedom or democratic rule?

I just downloaded the 2024 operating budget listing from toronto's open data portal. open.toronto.ca/dataset/budget…

To my dismay, for the third year running, it is again out of balance. (surpluses for waste, water, and parking are missing).

I've been notifying the City about this /2

I think it's super smart and reasonable that Toronto community councils spend so much time discussing trees in people's back yards.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

it really do be like that sometimes

What percentage of Toronto’s HAF award is tied to actual permits? Anyone know?

Civil servants (who work in an office environment) should be required to physically come to the office ______ days per week.

Today on TTC I heard an announcement saying there will be “heavier than normal train traffic” and to expect much slower travel times 🤔