The Yorkville neighborhood of Toronto competently combines older Victorian homes with denser modern and contemporary construction—without resorting to historicism | Photo by Duncan Rawlinson on Flickr
This article explores the problems and possibilities of architecture today, and particularly how our systems of development and planning create the everyday urban fabric. How can we rejig our city building machinery to produce the city we want?
This articles was written as part of a series leading up to Placemaking Week, a conference for public space and active transportation practitioners and advocates in Vancouver, BC from September 12–17, 2016.