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Toronto’s Public Transit Blues

March 8, 2008 – 11:43 am

I’ve been busy lately with work and such — so being able to blog about the issues I take note of has been difficult.  I try and post anything interesting via twitter.
That said, I noticed a very interesting article in the Toronto Star, one of the newspapers in my home city and it documented numerous [...]

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City Densities

February 18, 2008 – 1:48 pm

The Tyee has a great article on city densities and how a city needs to change as the number of people that live within a specific area increases. That said, the question that comes to mind is — how do we appropriately shape city areas based on demographics or population?
Erick Villagomez makes an interesting [...]

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Growing Cities are Good — I think …

January 27, 2008 – 7:46 am

Ran across this interesting brief video that talks about squatter cities in developing countries. If squatter cities are usually in the outskirts of major cities, will there be a time in the future when it will merge with the major cities? The other thing I wonder about are the environmental consequences of having [...]

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Cities of the Future

January 22, 2008 – 7:39 pm

Geekabout posted a really interesting article yesterday on the construction of the cities of tomorrow.  We’ve seen examples of these in movies, old books about space stations and the general ideal visions that come to mind when thinking of the future.  Many of these so called “cities of the future” are technically one large structure [...]

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