Any "review" of transit city, given the dynamics of agreements and funding from other levels of government, amount to flushing millions of dollars down the toilet. Rossi himself admits that the "review" is really designed to cancel the project, since he's already stated that his "review" is a...

My first reaction to this was not good, and this is exactly the kind of thing that I do associate with Washington. Perhaps it will grow on me. It seems like the new Women's College, when completed, will be three buildings: the old Art Deco to the west, a central oblong extending between...

The spacing of these buildings as they appear in that image will be altered as the next row are built between those and the expressway. There is a small amount of retail in the base of some of the buildings, but I actually question how much retail would be truly successful in these locations...

As a Globe reader, I couldn't be any happier. A partisan angry windbag devoid of any real insight or thought.

Though I could go on, I won't be checking into the post again. Anybody who proposed the ridiculous parking scheme for taxes doesn't merit the time it takes to read his sound-bites. On his absurd parking tax - do some math - a whopping new tax bill for $3,600,000 for Yorkdale Mall alone! A huge...

I certainly like this building, and I admire every example that US has posted about complexity and restraint in the use of colour, but I wonder if there's only one answer. After all, those who decide such things, the elites as it were, decided that Kearns Mancini's addition was worthy of a...

Glen, you fail to recognize your own lack of knowledge even as you admit the problems with your system at the outset (no 'real time' input. ie. Hydro: "What do mean replacing the poles on Sorauren? That was knocked off our plan months ago when priorities came up for Scarborough Golf Club...

Eug, you are quite right that there is a large amount of inertia, and this needs to be overcome. But, for instance, in the issue that Glen thinks his geekfriend can work up something in a week, you'd have to have strong and powerful buy-in from the leads within each organization. There are about...

Glen and Eug, there is a large and vibrant literature on IT projects in large organizations. Go and read.

Let me paraphrase your response, which I find deliciously inadequate. "A geek friend told me he could whip something up in a week and the data exists". Let me see, this would overlook: - Installation - A shared platform - Training - Linkages to existing scheduling and tracking...

Glen's bloodymindedness on UrbanToronto and Spacing and god-knows-how-many-other places on the web wins him no friends. I can only assume that he doesn't ever add to his blog (vacant for 16 months) because no one went there to actually read his stuff. So his strategy for the past while has been...

I also questioned the transit part of pman's post. One thing I have learned to hate about the Montreal metro is how deep and far off the stations are. It seems to me like you enter a station, and have to travel a huge distance down and often laterally to get to the platform, just to find that...

Amazing what you can do with mud and wattles these days.

Re: Happiness. Perhaps the strong correlation between happiness and suicide rates is due to the impact of feeling down in a place where everybody is cheerful. If I were depressed, being around a whole society of happy people could put me over the edge. Re: Australia. Maybe Australians aren't...

I am also geekily-happy about this getting built for many reasons. I hope that it brings new life to the College Park mall (thought the Metro and Richtree have gone some distance to doing that already); it fills what is a longstanding gap in the Yonge Street urban fabric; it pushes College Park...

scarb, the point I was making about Rosedale, is that a review of the buildings there which are now about 35 years old shows that those built in the best styles of the day have retained their attractiveness. Those built in the historical pastiche of the day - a kind of Georgian inspired effort -...

Mr. McIvor further noted that "The exhibits are Fun and Educational at the same time. Capital F. Capital E".

A block of these would look better after a few years? Would anyone really make that claim about, say, the French Quarter? I certainly haven't noticed that doing anything but getting slightly smudged. Time does nothing to improve these eyesores. Another set of contrary examples that I can...

I have always appreciated the counterpoint that the CN Tower makes to the highrises of the Financial District, but I could live with the Burj as well. However, if we got this building constructed here, we'd have to accept that we wouldn't need additional office space until, say about, 2073 or...

deepend, tThose artworks remind me very much of a piece of public art I once saw, more didactic I think, but certainly effective. In a poor-ish part of Sao Paulo, sitting on a building that provides social assistance, I thought it made an effective statement.