Iain Campbell

@iainmc.ca

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web person, photographer, urbanist https://iainmc.ca

Toronto park bins in beautiful places
godawful condo in Cambridge, ON where the first five floors including ground are just a battleship grey concrete box, presumably above ground parking.
Yonge St streetscape from today - a single, monolith of a building with a featureless glass wall at street level. There are only two stores, and most of the glass has been covered by the type of opaque banners you see at Shoppers Drug Mart. Surprisingly, neither of the stores is a Shoppers.
Ontario has had all the tools it needs to house a fast-growing population, even with high interest rates. But its laws prohibit labour-efficient multi-family housing on almost all existing low-rise "neighbourhood" streets, limiting apartment buildings to tiny high-rise pockets where family-sized homes aren't viable. They require that most homes large enough for families be built in inefficient low-density types and put on farmland and natural areas where construction resources are wasted on building roads, sewers and other infrastructure from scratch. […]
A manure spreader hard at work spraying manure liberally over a field
A multi-stage pedestrian crossing with three separate walk signals: one for each side of the roadway and one for the tramway, at the 1e Con. Huygensstraat tram stop in Amsterdam.
Bank of Canada inflation calculator showing that a basket of goods and services that cost $4370 in 2004 would cost $6272 in 2024.
Bank of Canada inflation calculator showing that a basket of goods and services that cost $4370 in 2004 would cost $6271 in 2024.