This letter, signed by 27 prominent B.C. experts in urban planning and architecture, was sent last week to Prime Minister ...

Few cities in the contemporary world have made public housing as central to urban life as Singapore has. With over 80% of the population living in flats built and maintained by the Housing & ...

Singapore’s skyline is constantly in motion. Construction cranes and hoardings are as much part of the visual identity of the ...

In British Columbia, ordinary homeowners pay annual property taxes—and when they buy a home, they pay Property Transfer Tax.

There’s a glaring irony about the city’s messily disintegrating priority bus lane plan, which landed at executive committee ...

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

In an intriguing aside a third of the way into Justice Paul Schabas’ extraordinary decision (issued yesterday) in Toronto’s bike lane war with Premier Doug Ford, he reveals how, about a month ago, he ...

When the University of Toronto’s John P. Robarts Research Library, located at St. George and Harbord streets, opened its doors in 1973, it was the largest academic library building in the world, ...

Singapore often appears as a paradox—both widely admired and deeply critiqued. It is a city-state that epitomizes precision ...

In Vancouver today, rezoning doesn’t necessarily mean building. Increasingly, it means something else: securing entitlements — legal permissions that inflate a property’s value regardless of whether ...

Cheryl Thompson is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Black Expressive Culture & Creativity, Associate Professor of Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University. It’s Black History Month and this ...

The Ontario auditor general’s review of the Ontario Place scandal contains enough muck to start an industrial-scale pig farm, with plenty left over to get the OPP or the RCMP going on an investigation ...