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Nope.

Yeah, but if I was a developer, and I saw the crap that outer developers who want to do something special (10 York, Gehry, Oxford, Massey) go through with all the controversy from preservationists, NIMBYs, and planners -- I'd go from inoffensive and banal, too. If this proposal was anything...

You know, it's pretty silly how much of the economy is tied up in housing in developed countries relative to developing countries. So much so that economists now consider housing to be the key-driver of a modern economy, which is why central bankers focus on the housing market to lead us out of...

Yes. This is actually what a lot of people want. Well... most urbanists generally want living downtown to be affordable. But they reject the idea that supply and demand has anything to do with pricing. Which is understandable given the last 30+ years of real estate history where prices have...

ROFL. If there was a more stereotypical image of a group of old, "get off my lawn!" type people, it's these. The YQNA makes me so angry. I hate them. Busy bodies, all. If they lived in the suburbs, it would be these same assholes who'd be trying to ban kids playing ball hockey on quiet side...

Yep. I always stand in awe at how some will vigorously defend what a great job our city planners do, while simultaneously whinging about the quality of architecture in this city. It seems to me that the city planners have done a lot over the years to push the blandification [sic]. Also, I...

No. Actually we should keep doing that. Because, when you look at housing in London, Tokyo and Manhattan, people living in $2 million condos are well, you know, making a lot of money. You're mistaken if you think average incomes for people living in Manhattan are not adjusted to the cost of...

How could this happen? Everyone knows real estate only goes up! It's like... a perfect investment! Oh, and Canada is different from the US because it is doing so well economically and like... it has immigration and stuff! </sarcasm>

What makes you think I'm a skyscraper fanboy?

You can combine mockery with a thorough dismantling of their positions. Don't worry. I fully attend to show up at any public consultation to counter these fools.

It's too tiring to debate point-by-point with the YQRA. I've tried. Part of my mockery was to point out the grasping--at-straws and incongruence of their position. But it turns out that I've figured out their real concerns after berating them: they just like things the way they are. And they...

Uh-oh. The York Quay Resident Association isn't going to like this proposal one bit. It will, among other things: 1. Crowd the sidewalks. 2. Overload <insert infrastructure item here> 3. Increase crime. 4. Destroy the Earth. 5. Cause cancer among existing waterfront residents. 6. Lead...

Oh trust me, I live in the area -- when most of the people in these existing condos catch wind of this proposal, they're going to go apeshit. Why? Because they're selfish, over-privileged, hypocrites. But they did succeed in getting the developer over at York St. to shave some floors off their...

Given these are proposed buildings and there is active controversy around whether or not they should be approved by the city, this seems like a perfectly on-topic discussion.

Yep.

The idea that de-urbanization, particularly in North America was merely an example of "poor regulation" or market forces run amok is just plain wrong. There are elements of truth to it which make for good anecdotes. Like, the Detroit automakers buying up streetcar lines, only to shut them down...

I don't deny global warming. I'm a free market libertarian with georgist tendencies (sometimes called a geolibertarian). I'm definitely not a conservative. But my views on urbanism are much like those of Edward Glaeser.

Urban planners and such will jump all over me for this, but the economist in me calls shenanigans on this "balanced growth" meme that gets thrown around. I assert it to be an economic fallacy, writ large. That, if developers are not restrained by the popular will of the electorate through...

Adam Vaughn is a clown. I live in his ward and wouldn't vote for him if a gun were held to my head.

That's actually not a better question. It dances over the premises around agency and suffrage upon which drinking ages are justified on. The corollary implied would be that adult gamblers are akin to children. It is to infantalize them. The alternative corollary is that children are capable of...