Recent content by Dirk

SOME family units. By SOME you mean 5%. HALF of what Adam Vaughn is setting for as a standard across downtown for all developers. You would think that WT, which claims it is creating an alternative to urban sprawl would go higher than the proposed law. What exactly is 5%? When being compared to...

This is just because San Fransisco was not included in that list because it wasn't thought to be important enough, there is no way the SF has a lower average income than Mumbai, the lowest city on the list. Here some income stats from Wikipedia and the Census with SF in American dollars: San...

I'm guessing that they are planning for a convenience store with only 28 square meters (300 square feet) of space in the Block 24 building.

Where did you get that info waterloowarrior? would be interesting to look at the people going to toronto from toronto for jobs in different parts of the golden horseshoe.

I stumbled upon this project on the consulting giant Accenture's website. A whole bunch of reports are available, including one for each city. They are essentially about how well the citizen like their city services, and what the priorities are for improving the services. Forums took place in...

A new study as part of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project ranks Toronto as the 11th most competitiveness city in the world. New York, London, Tokyo and Paris take 1234 of course, followed by Washington D.C. I was especially surprised by the fact that half of the top 20 cities were...

Maglev, is in fact very expensive, whether in urban or rural areas, since it needs to be elevated, and the cost of the electromagnets that must line the whole length are extremely expensive. For example, the recently canceled Munich city center-airport maglev was going to cost 5.7 billion for a...

I think we can do this, thanks to an example of high speed rail working in a country with similar stats to Ontarebec: Taiwan (pop. 23 million, about the same as Ontario+Quebec). A private public partnership was created to make a $15 billion 335 km (about the third of what ours would be) line...

Now thats not too hard. In Seaton Village, at Manning and Follis.

Finally some progress.

Hmm... starting from the $500,000's. Either underpriced or the market really is getting soft.

wow, lots of progress.

Reminiscent of many suburban office buildings.

No, i just wish the buildings were built in the 20s and 30s.

Each office project seems to go higher faster: BAC, RBC and now Telus.