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Tag Archives: Suburbs
Requiem for Ontario’s regional malls
Shoppers World Brampton, 2016, before the Target store was replaced by smaller stores, including Giant Tiger Recently, I wrote about the history of Ontario’s downtown malls. Most of these shopping centres, built in the 1970s and 1980s in the downtown … Continue reading
Posted in Brampton, Development, Ontario, Urban Planning
Tagged Brampton, Dead Mall, Mall, Shoppers World, Shopping, Suburbs, TVO
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Mount Pleasant: New Urbanism that almost works
Mount Pleasant Square, Brampton A few weeks ago, I visited Cathedraltown, a subdivision in north Markham built in the new urbanist style. Cathedraltown made the news thanks to a controversial metallic sculpture of a cow installed in a parkette. (Last … Continue reading
Posted in Brampton, Transit, Urban Planning
Tagged Brampton, Development, Mount Pleasant, New Urbanism, Suburbs
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Greenfield infrastructure: not so green
St. Catharines site, Niagara Health System I recently visited two Ontario cities, St. Catharines and Orillia, to illustrate the problems of building new medical and educational institutions on isolated greenfield sites. Large greenfield lands have several advantages: they’re easy and … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged Brampton, Hospital, Orillia, Oshawa, St. Catharines, Suburbs, University, Windsor
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A better Hurontario Street – an LRT update
When the LRT is opened on Hurontario Street, it will be safer and more pleasant for pedestrians and cyclists. Continue reading
Posted in Brampton, Cycling, Infrastructure, Roads, Transit
Tagged Brampton, Cycling, Hurontario Street, Hurontario-Main, LRT, Metrolinx, Mississauga, Suburbs
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They call this a “SmartCentre”
The word “smart,” like many buzzwords, is thrown around a lot, to the point that it has lost meaning. SmartTrack, for instance, might have been a catchy name for a transit plan, but in the end, it didn’t turn out … Continue reading
Posted in Transit, Urban Planning, Walking
Tagged Big Box, Bus, Bus stop, Power Centre, Shopping, SmartCentres, St. Catharines, Suburbs, Transit
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Mapping Toronto’s population growth
Data geeks across Canada were eagerly awaiting this day — February 8, 2017 — the first release of the 2016 Canadian Census of the Population. Today’s release only covers population and dwelling counts, further information on age, sex, household characteristics, … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Toronto
Tagged Census, Development, Greenbelt, Population, Suburbs, Toronto
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The subway is coming. Let’s improve Scarborough Centre
As the readers of my blog probably know, I am not a fan of the Scarborough Subway extension. Even though the subway will be expensive and less useful than a fully-funded light rail replacement of the ageing Scarborough RT, politicians from … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Transit, Urban Planning
Tagged Scarborough, Scarborough Centre, Suburbs, Subway
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