Yes; downtown condos are filled with young parents who were themselves raised in the suburbs with the long commute.

In other countries, where gas taxes are high, large private vehicles are comparatively rare. Some places have also moved to reduce the appeal of SUVs and light trucks, mostly through higher-cost parking and registration. In Canada, though, such measures remain rare.

Children hit

Remember 'growing up vertical,' where we identified ways to make vertical neighbourhoods, buildings and units friendlier to families?

Suburbs losing children is likely an outcome of the push for aging in place, and a shortage of options for empty nesters to downsize into, which

This is a phenomenon that exists across the country. First saw this in Fredericton, NB 20 years ago with the development of adjacent ‘unincorporated’ areas. Developers sidestepped development charges by developing new housing just outside of municipal boundaries and then applying

We've got these audacious home building goals to house Canadians - can we meet them?

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 puts a fine point on the part no one is talking about: 'we will run out of capital before we run out of labour.'

We have a design opportunity when it comes to new homes - the

Organizers of the Paris Summer Games 2024 want to make sustainability, rather than monumental construction, its chief legacy. How have they done this?

New construction has been kept to a minimum and they have prioritized building with wood.

Harvested wood is generally

A new take on induced demand.

We've know for quite some time that if you want a surge in drivers in your city, build roads & highways and more people will get in their cars and drive.

But now we know that if you want a surge in cycling in your city, just build safer cycling

We need to make cities less car dependant.

Why? Science.
scientificamerican.com/article/we-nee…

Incremental, gentle density added here and there throughout a suburban city is a great way to add housing choice, to support transit and to enable people to downsize in their existing neighbourhood. It's also the way to start working towards sufficient density to support

Many mid-sized cities are terrible to get around since they do not have density or mobility choices.

Many large cities are brilliant to get around - think Shanghai which has a population of 26 million, exceptional transit, and where 40% of trips are on transit - because they twitter.com/williamburtch/…

Car-centrism is clearly part of the road safety crisis — but it’s about culture more than geography. So committed are Americans to their cars that 63% of people choose to drive for trips of less than a mile.

Why? City and street design drive choices - if you assess where people

Building more housing slows rent growth.

Yes, building *any* form of housing - rental and ownership - slows rent growth.

Think about it - when you build more housing for people to buy they move out of rental housing into their newly owned home…thereby creating more

We need to make cities less car dependant.

Why? Science.
scientificamerican.com/article/we-nee…

Lots of these stories post-Covid. This city has a way of getting in your DNA, whether you want it to or not.

“I left Toronto to live in a small town and missed it terribly. Now I’m back for good.” torontolife.com/real-estate/ke…

I’ve moved a lot since having kids. The BEST living situation for the kids was when we were in an “8-plex”. We knew all our neighbours, saw them daily, shared pet-sitting, baby-sitting, & grocery shopping. So, so much more family friendly than the SFHs we’ve lived in.