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What, in your opinion, constitutes basic planning principles?

Those were the days... when people had the foresight to realize that some of their children would die young do to a lack of public sanitation and public healthcare. Those were the days... when people had to have large families to support them in old age because of a lack of pensions. Those...

If you think politics is devoid of power and struggles for power, then you are simply naive.

I think what nfitz is saying is that on a normal through stage of the cycle (as opposed to a scramble stage) the pedestrian signal will count down until there is a red hand. There will be a red hand in all four directions and then the scramble stage will start, counting down until there is a red...

This sounds like it is the case. The staff report talks about revisiting the flood protection plans (i.e the renaturalization of the Don Mouth) in order to find a front-ended, privately funded alternative that would free up more development space. And as for the type of development. Large-scale...

Here's a link to the staff report that details how development responsibility will be transfered from Waterfront Toronto to the Toronto Port Lands Corporation. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2011/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-40318.pdf Page 7 -8 details the rationale for making TPLC the...

The day after you moved, I saw Miller lighting a cigar with a $7,000 bill... coincidence?

In essence, a firm belief in the merit of entrepreneurialism coupled with a wholehearted rejection of the possibility for innovation. This is what life would be like if pick-up truck commercials were a completely accurate reflection of reality. Men doing things, but not thinking too hard about them.

I'm not an expert, but as far as I know Modernist architecture generally rejected what was deemed the ostentatious ornamentation of earlier styles - including Victorian architecture - in favour of simple, functional, and unornamented design. The height of modernist architecture in Toronto was...

I would argue that discussing homelessness in Nathan Phillips Square is germane to its revitalization. It calls into question how we define revitalization, which I think can be thought of as solely concerned with physical redesign, or perhaps the relation between phsycial design and how and by...

I agree. When did this forum stop being a place where people could have mutually reaffirming conversations about really tall buildings? I mean this is a site about urban Toronto, right? What does homelessness have to do with that?

A withering critique. Good show sir.

I would generally agree with this sentiment except in this particular case - and not because it's Ford doing the asking - but because "if you're on the side of Toronto" implies that the project for which funds are requested is indeed beneficial to Toronto. And I know I'm stirring the sh*t pot...

And a slightly more acerbic one here: http://spacingtoronto.ca/2011/08/15/toronto-life-screws-jane-jacobs/

Between your masturbatory fetishization of tall buildings and nonsensical neo-libertarian soundbites, at least no one can accuse you of cognitive dissonance.

I'm pretty sure theterribleone meant corps as an abbreviation for corporations, not corps as in a unit within a military command structure.

Do I look all rancid and clotted? You look at me, Georgie. Eh? Look, eh? And I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man, Georgie - that's what I am. And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Georgie.

Not that I disagree with you on the aesthetics of the mechanical, but I wouldn't worry about it being repeated. As far as I know the tower was designed around exhaust stacks for a district energy centre, and the relative mass of the mechanical is a direct result of this.

Regarding the gap issue, the building code sets out standards for the portion of a wall that can be glazed (i.e. windows) depending on how close that wall is to the property line. For a wall built on the property line, 0% of the wall can be glazed. As the wall moves back from the property line...

Or something like this?