The much-anticipated final volume in the critically acclaimed series, New York 2020 explores the planning and politics of building the city in the first decades of the 21st century. More than 2,000 ...

Does the City of Toronto see its network of sidewalks as transportation infrastructure? Officially, the answer is yes.

By Toronto standards, it is a borderline miracle that the Trillium ferry is still operational. Built in 1910, two years ...

The October 2026 Toronto election may seem like a long way off, but intentions to run have already been declared and campaign ...

See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...

There is no shortage of distortion in our public discourse right now. Context-free photos. Selective anecdotes. Partial ...

We still don’t know when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open. It could be any day – the testing is all done. Or it could be many weeks away, given its history – there are still processes to go ...

The edifice of economic theory constructed over the last two centuries, to an extent in the shadow of physics, has been refuted time and again.” — Michael Batty, Inventing Future Cities Everywhere you ...

In the intricate machinery of urban governance, one figure looms large but largely out of sight: the City Manager. Appointed by City Council, not elected by the public, this individual is the city’s ...

In 1864, Fydor Dostoevsky wrote his seminal Notes from Underground, a novella exploring existentialism and alienation in a large city – in his case, St. Petersburg – the premise of which in many ways ...

As befits a fall when the Blue Jays have again become contenders, the $10 billion-plus question hanging over the soon-to-be-opened Crosstown LRT is whether it will attract riders. We built it, but ...

There’s a word that shows up a lot in housing debates—one that tends to end conversations rather than deepen them: viability. I hear this word constantly in comments to articles I write and in the ...