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Fewer children isn't something that you can easily point to as having a clear affect on places at the neighbourhood scale, or even (sometimes) the municipal scale. There might be neighbourhoods in the old city of Toronto old enough to be home to a diverse enough set of age cohorts for there to...

Marilyns flanking 90 Harbour and an 80 storey building northeast of 60 Harbour along the Gardiner/Bay would be great.

Rubbish. 90 Harbour is not a dilapidated one storey shack occupying an entire superblock of land that can't possibly be reused or intensified. The choice is between towers plus 90 Harbour or towers and a low-rise podium instead of 90 Harbour. No, no one will ever be shown slides of it in an...

Markham gets way too much credit. It hasn't actually intensified anything yet...it's still filling in the land between Steeles and Hwy 7, along the 404 and 407, that was essentially leap-frogged when Markham/Unionville grew before areas closer to Toronto. Markham is still building almost...

Look at the bright side: if Sheppard goes forward before Eglinton, again, you’ll be able to gripe about it for years. Lines don't need to be 100% underground. They don't need station operators. Eglinton is far from just a concrete slab in the street, by the way. There’s a range of...

No. I goofed and got a tattoo of 80 Harbour, the parking lot next door. A spoiled child would scream, "I want more condos! I don't care what's in the way. Mummy, make Big Daddy give me the condos. Now, now, now!" There's parking lots on both sides of 90 Harbour that can become...

Transit was an omnipresent 'issue' for the entire campaign. CP24, for instance, talked about it almost daily. But did anyone vote based on transit issues? No, not really. Maybe it factored decisively into ten thousand votes. It would have become more of a real vote-affecting issue had...

What do you want people to do? Post about their undying love for 90 Harbour once a month? Get a tattoo of it? Maybe people were busy appreciating other now-demolished buildings.

I agree, 90 Harbour is the kind of building that we'll really start appreciating in 20 years or so, if only because the sea of ugly 30-40 storey condos around it will be so oppressive. The precast/grey panel podium that will replace it will probably be lower and less streetwall friendly, too...

Locations along the Spadina line at and north of Lawrence are slated for massive redevelopment. Tens of thousands of residents and jobs. They can take the subway to Yorkdale. Yorkdale needs every single parking space it has even with a well-used subway connection. On a busy shopping day like...

If investors and flippers buy 80% of a condo's units and the passes don't make it into the hands of the people who actually live there throughout that first year, that's some nice, consequence-free revenue. What do they do, anyway...show up at your suite door the day after the condo registers...

If vehicles are going to be slow and wait at red lights, they might as well keep all the stops...

If you mean the height, it's limited by the runway. If you mean the general sparseness and separation of everything, well, there's no good reason for that. The planning process in this city has to a degree been hijacked by public space concerns that emphasize quantity and a brute presence over...

Forest Hill is only one portion of the area in question. Lawrence and Wilson and Sheppard and Finch are not Forest Hill and are seeing redevelopment. 'Forest Hill' (air quotes) near St. Clair West station is already Manhattanized with dozens of small and medium-sized apartment buildings. What...

There's nothing surprising about it. Ford Country is the bulk of the city and is served mostly by bus routes. Non-Ford Country is the quarter of the city filled mostly with subway and streetcar lines. The routes targeted are mostly either the non-arterial routes that snake around and in...

If those gas and parking costs increased to $2 and $5 gradually over a few years, you would continue to drive. "Cheap" is relative. You would get used to the new costs, as would everyone else. The *only* way increases will impact driving/transit share is if they increase very, very quickly...

Where is this vacant third floor and how would it be accessed? Well, really, Yorkdale has no room for condos. It has no peripheral parking pads like Sherway does. It's not surrounded by empty fields like STC or Square One is/was. It's not being redeveloped down to the ground like the Don...

UTSG, UTM, and UTSC all expanded due to the double cohort and to general rises in university enrollment. Actual "diversion" of undergrads hasn't really started yet, but it could if grad program expansions push undergrads out of downtown. Have any departments or programs actually moved to...

Where? Read the post you're failing miserably to counter. Subtracting 10K leaves 38K, which is 10K less than Sheppard. If you're going to argue with numbers, try using correct numbers. It's not about what I want, it's about what Rob Ford probably wants. There's next to nothing to gain...

Nice try. I specifically mentioned the ridership before construction started. The 48,000 current riders include Harbourfront (5K? 10K) while Spadina bus ridership figures do not. Depending on how many ride Harbourfront today, 15% could really be anything from 10% to 25%, but it's in that...