Last week, the City of Toronto relaunched yongeTOmorrow, a project to design a people-first future for Downtown Yonge Street from Queen to College. The recommended design puts forward a bold…
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A major redesign of downtown Yonge Street has been in the works for years, but has taken on a new urgency under COVID-19, which has highlighted the need for more…
After years of community advocacy, in 2015 the City of Toronto launched the yongeTOmorrow study to improve the pedestrian experience along downtown Yonge Street from Queen to College. By early…
ActiveTO is the City of Toronto’s new plan to provide space on streets to help residents get outside and get around safely while respecting physical distancing, as part of the…
Our Urban Innovation Cafe series is back, in webinar format. Over the next two months, join us for conversations with Ryerson experts and leading practitioners working on critical urban issues,…
On April 10, Ryerson faculty members Drs. Anne Harris and Linda Rothman called for more cycling and pedestrian space to achieve safe physical distancing, in an open letter to Toronto…
The redesign of downtown Yonge Street has been years in the making, and now, a new vision for a people-first Yonge Street is really taking shape with the release of…
Accomplished city builder, CBI co-founder and author Ken Greenberg is a member of volunteer-run Ontario Place for All, an advocacy group fighting for the preservation of Ontario Place as a…
With laneway housing now made possible in Toronto, it’s a great time to think more about how else we can animate our laneways and build an ever-more interesting, inclusive and…
Downtown Yonge is the epicentre of Toronto’s growth and change, with rising condo towers, increasing office employment, shifting retail patterns and a growing student population. But the street itself hasn’t...
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