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Growing Pains: An Evergreen Cityworks and The Globe and Mail Documentary on Urban Growth
As our population continues to grow, how will the region accommodate both present and future needs?’ This is the question that Growing Pains asks after summarizing how urban…
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Let’s Talk Housing: Graeme Stewart Presents at the National Housing Strategy Plenary Session
As part of the ongoing work related to Tower Renewal, ERA and the Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal are consulting with the federal government on the emerging…
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Thorncliffe Park – Cultural Café in the Park
Throughout September 2016, Thorncliffe Park will host a cultural café, music, art and storytelling circles in its R.V. Burgess Park. These events, taking place each Saturday…
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Maytree Foundation Blog Features Jay Pitter’s Case for Improved Social Housing
Tower Renewal and ERA collaborator Jay Pitter discusses a rethink to social housing, Tower Renewal, and her book ‘Subdivided City’ on the Maytree Foundation Blog. Read it here.…
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Tower Renewal Partnership: revitalizing communities through research, advocacy, and action
The Tower Renewal Partnership is an initiative working to transform Southern Ontario’s remarkable stock of post-war apartment towers into more complete communities, resilient housing stock and…
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Video of Graeme Stewart at the Great Cities Institute
Following up our teaser blog to Graeme’s talk at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Great Cities Institute, we would like to share with you the link to…
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Arup’s Doggerel Covers Tower Renewal
Image by Jesse Colin Jackson Joshua Thorpe’s article, “How to rethink the suburbs: A lesson from Toronto,” in Arup’s Doggerel explores the new Residential Apartment Commerical (RAC) zone and…
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Cities Alive Podcast – Zoning Out! Pt. 1
How do zoning laws contribute to – or prevent – the creation of complete communities? The Cities Alive podcast episode, Zoning Out! Part 1 addresses issues surrounding this question. Hosts…
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Harvest Festival in Thorncliffe Park
This past Saturday, September 26th, the Third Not-So-Annual Harvest Festival took place in Thorncliffe Park. Hosted by not-for-profit Diasporic Genius (DG), the festival featured a pop-up Women’s…
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Metropolis: Tower Renewal Key to Toronto’s Livability
This month’s issue of Metropolis Magazine ranks Toronto #1 globally for livability; and is in good company with Tokyo and Helsinki, numbers two and three respectively. The…
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EU Research for Tower Renewal
As part of ongoing research related to the Tower Renewal project, ERA’s Graeme Stewart and Michael McClelland, with project partners Evergreen Cityworks and planningAlliance, recently toured the Netherlands…
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NFB’s final chapter, Universe Within: Digital Lives in the Global Highrise
Congratulations to the team at Highrise for releasing a new and final chapter of their award winning web documentary. Highrise is a multi-year documentary project focusing on the suburban Towers…