Blair Scorgie is a Toronto-based Registered Professional Planner and Urban Designer. He is the Managing Principal of Scorgie Planning, and a Sessional Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University.

As Astral’s wretched street furniture deal limps towards its inevitable conclusion, Toronto’s litter bins are back in the ...

After years of relatively mild winters, the darkest season is once again bringing sustained cold and abundant snow to ...

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design will be screening The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces this Thursday, March 12 at 6:30pm at 1 Spadina ...

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, ...

Mark Wilson and Prince Charles touring the mouth of the Don River, 1991 In the coming weeks, Waterfront Toronto crews will remove the final plug in the new Lower Don, thereby allowing the river to ...

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 ...

Shadow study with full shadow lengths provided outside the initial frame chosen by Perkins & Will for the 1780 E. Broadway proposal. Shadow studies often get lost amid the seemingly more pressing ...

When Sidewalk Labs rolled into Toronto in 2017, there was no ambiguity about the corporate family tree. Sidewalk officials repeatedly said the smart city start-up venture was a kind of mash-up: Google ...

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 ...

How many bills does it take to build the homes Ontario says it needs? The recently re-elected Doug Ford government would have you believe it takes several, despite missing its own housing targets for ...

UBC professor of landscape architecture and urban design Patrick Condon discusses his provocative new book. Photos supplied. [Editor’s Note: Patrick Condon is a well-respected voice on local planning ...