The COVID-19 pandemic poses questions for cities around the world, including here in the GTA: what will be the impacts, short-term and lasting, to urban life? We brought together Ryerson…
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On April 29, we presented a webinar with the Urban Land Institute Toronto on the “Future of Main Streets.” We asked our expert panel — composed of John Archer (360…
Over the past year, our team at Ryerson CBI has been working on a report called Density Done Right, which explores how communities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe can sustainably...
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On April 10, Ryerson faculty members Drs. Anne Harris and Linda Rothman called for more cycling and pedestrian space to achieve safe physical distancing, in an open letter to Toronto…
As Toronto grapples with COVID-19 (along with cities and regions the world over), city builders are considering its potential impacts on urban density, housing, work, mobility and neighbourhoods in the…
Urban designer Ken Greenberg is our organization’s co-founder. Since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Toronto, he’s been keeping a daily diary. We’re publishing some of his thoughts and reflections here, in…
Urban designer Ken Greenberg is our organization’s co-founder. Since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Toronto, he’s been keeping a daily diary. We’re publishing some of his thoughts and reflections here,…
In the last few weeks, Ryerson CBI has participated in several tours of the Sidewalk Labs “307” presentation centre with Ryerson staff, faculty and students. We organized these tours as…
While personal e-scooters have been seen on Ontario roads for years now, as of January 2020, e-scooters are now explicitly permitted under provincial law (up to 24 km/hour), under a…
The title of this post was a question posed at the first event of The Globe and Mail’s “National Housing Innovation Series” on December 6, 2019 in Toronto. The following…