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Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, University of Toronto Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
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As Trump demolishes the Canadian economy, your reminder that his "reasons" are total garbage:

It would be fantastic if the Toronto urban design awards, this time, did not give an automatic gold star to mediocre city projects www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

working on a planning thing

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

underway or recently completed neighborhoods in munich, vienna, helsinki, and seattle. spot the differences

What an incredible waste of resources.

Toronto's 1970s Reform movement saw these buildings - which provide good housing for a million people - as the enemy. It's time to reconsider their ideas.

Hope the governing majority at Toronto Council realizes now that no other level of government is coming to save them on housing. No provincial zoning reform, no Major Transit Station Areas, no inclusionary zoning, no public builder money. Sitting around pointing the finger is failing at your jobs.

Writing about Claude Cormier on this snowy day, I went to see Sugar Beach. One of the “umbrellas” is now broken. We’ll see if and when it gets repaired.

A list of things that could have done a better job than Doug Ford on the housing file: a blindfolded monkey with one arm tied behind its back; a damp cardboard box filled with marbles; a stiff westerly breeze.

My column on Doug Ford’s housing record: the wrong things, done badly. Gift link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe...

Toronto streets have looked basically fine the last few days. Seven days after an exceptional storm, things are clear. Is there any evidence that this snowstorm was badly handled? Or was this simply a case of limited resources being swamped by a massive storm?

Found a building that represents the Western tradition. Make architecture great again!

My column on Doug Ford’s housing record: the wrong things, done badly. Gift link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe...