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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 6h

It's an irony of politics that the level of government that most directly affects how you live on a daily basis gets the least attention.

Go vote, Calgary! Same goes for the rest of Alberta, too.

Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 7h

Bracing for bleak election turnout.
Is everyone distracted? Too busy? Are people turned off by the candidates? Or do all of the above contribute to Calgary voters' current none-of-the-above mindset? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Calgary's 2025 meh-lection: how low can turnout go? | CBC News

With a mix of inattention and indecision tamping down excitement, advance voting has plunged. Will Calgarians' decision be to not bother?

www.cbc.ca

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 17h

Yet central neighbourhoods remain not especially dense, in many cases with shrinking populations. This is true in Van and Toronto as well, and I think it’s a serious problem, not a virtue.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 18h

This is a very dense project for a North American suburb, and it has positive aspects. But what portion of the residents are likely to rely on transit even in the best scenario?

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 19h

“Dense urban”

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 19h

Case in point. In most such places, transit exists but is marginal and mixed uses are absent.
bsky.app/profile/jwhi...

Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · 19h

When I was a developer in Calgary, I led the planning and development of an edge greenfield community (Alpine Park) that has a residential density of between 5000-6000 people per square km. That’s in the “dense urban” category here. Very different than US suburbs.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting, but Canadians shouldn’t be too proud; much of the “urban” in Canada is still car-oriented SFH.

Canadian suburbs are denser than American ones. Density does not always translate into transit use or walkability.

Marcus P. @reluctantaxe.bsky.social · 21h

A Redditor made a graph of the percent of population of US and Canada metro areas over 1 million that live in a given density. When they ordered them by average density the lowest ranked Canadian metro area, Edmonton, was ranked 14th between Miami and Washington. 6 of the top 15 were Canadian metros

Graph of Canada and US metro areas with a breakdown of percentage of people that live in density density bands

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 22h

Ok tonight’s sunset was *chef’s kiss*

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 1d

Architects HCMA do a lovely job with their mailout. It’s not about architecture. mailchi.mp/hcma/the-spa...

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2d

Toronto’s civic square should be a place for people to come together. It can be - with some leadership and some followthrough. My column:

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Toronto deserves a civic space with heart. Why can’t it fix Nathan Phillips Square?

The ongoing attempts to fix the space in front of City Hall continue – 60 years after it was built

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2d

Case in point! bsky.app/profile/alex...

Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2d

Toronto’s civic square should be a place for people to come together. It can be - with some leadership and some followthrough. My column:

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Toronto deserves a civic space with heart. Why can’t it fix Nathan Phillips Square?

The ongoing attempts to fix the space in front of City Hall continue – 60 years after it was built

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2d

Toronto’s civic square should be a place for people to come together. It can be - with some leadership and some followthrough. My column:

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Toronto deserves a civic space with heart. Why can’t it fix Nathan Phillips Square?

The ongoing attempts to fix the space in front of City Hall continue – 60 years after it was built

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2d

This applies 10x to the design and construction of public space. Endless missed opportunities.

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 2d

Good thread about evolution of traffic planning in the heart of Bologna. I want to emphasize this particular post for Toronto. The city has lost the ability to plan higher order transit so municipal politicians need to stop spending all their effort on federal funding and start doing what they can.

Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 2d

Pragmatism.

In a context where funding for mass transit projects was sorely lacking, the city didn't waste time on pipe dreams; instead, it acted on what it had control of and fiscal capacity for: bus service levels and patterns, allocation of street space, and traffic flow organization.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d

Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 2d

WE DID IT!!!

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2d

The near-complete Adisoke, Ottawa’s new central library. Presented without comment.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Ottawa: Library Archives Canada, Mathers Haldenby, 1967.

This is just the lobby. What a feast of details.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 3d

Photos taken at “The Grange,” Toronto, 112 years ago today - Oct. 9, 1913.

📸: City of Toronto Archives

#OnThisDay #otd #thegrange #grangepark #1910s #artgallery #artgalleryofontario #art #house #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 4d

AS+GG.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 4d

Correction! 30m and 37m widths.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 4d

Straight from 1986.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 4d

The main street. 47m/154’ wide. One and half times the width of a Manhattan avenue. Lined by tall buildings on very large blocks. Just horrendous urbanism.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 4d

Overscaled buildings, overscaled roads, big parks. like Canary wharf, but less interesting.

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