Recent content by isaidso

Our ability to build grim depressing streets is truly shocking. 75% is asphalt, the other 25% concrete. Utilitarian metal lamp posts, overhead wiring, no landscaping to speak of, and every building is cheap and primitive. There's not one square inch on that shot that's attractive. The Selby...

I'm assuming you're using 'New Yorky' to mean 1930's architecture. 210 Dundas is 'Collegiate Gothic-style' while 481 University is 'International Style'. During that era, they were prevalent architectural styles right across North America...

How Toronto to view soot, dirt, run down, shabby and/or neglect as 'character'. In most places around the world, restoration is the preference.

Yes, Mississauga has a long way to go before it transforms into a proper city with real city streets. This car thoroughfare has the potential to become its first urban stretch but it will likely take 20+ years to materialize.

So more affordable than Loblaws then. That's a pleasant surprise.

The top shelf architecture that's starting to get built (Forma, The One) is imperative if appreciation for good design is to materialize. You can't covet good design if you've never been exposed to it. For many Torontonians, all they've ever known is banal utilitarian everything. We have to...

Not having decent transit is a product of an auto-centric culture that builds unsustainable crap like this proposal above. And it's not like St. Catharines-Niagara Falls is some small town. It's the 13th largest metropolitan area in the country. Instead of learning from the auto-centric...

Thankfully, it's not all glass.

So they went to great time and expense to bury the electrical but we still end up with overhead electrical?

We used to have a largely merit based society but it's more about who you know these days. Countless organizations are chocked full of incompetent people, style over substance, and high earners who can't put a proposal together without the help of Grammarly. What's surprising is that we don't...

That street is ripe for some urban guerrilla activism. It's worked in Kensington so why not here. 😐

Yes, we need to invest in more idiot proofing. Bollards everywhere; especially along all bike paths. Every day I encounter a slew of motorists parked in them. It would help if law enforcement were instructed to have said vehicles removed every time they see it .... but I guess they're too...

Take the bed out and it could be confused with a foyer to the actual condo.

That's the wrong way of looking at it though. It speaks to an auto-centric mindset when we prioritize the needs of cars first, then what ever is left over is devoted to everybody else (cyclists, pedestrians, LRT). It's well established that adding car lanes doesn't reduce congestion. When we...

Quite decent and a much needed boost to what's a pretty bland, sterile Charles West.