Matt Armstrong
@matta7.bsky.social
Tall City Planner, Tkaronto (Toronto).
He/him. Formerly & fondly a resident of Hamilton, Ontario & London, UK.
He/him. Formerly & fondly a resident of Hamilton, Ontario & London, UK.
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We know Toronto is growing. As we grow, we need new public facilities and services, so that affordable housing, libraries, childcare, community and cultural spaces and public art options are available and easily accessible.
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We know Toronto is growing. As we grow, we need new public facilities and services, so that affordable housing, libraries, childcare, community and cultural spaces and public art options are available and easily accessible.
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This is a great explainer for why protecting employment areas is so important.
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is a great explainer for why protecting employment areas is so important.
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...
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Canadian Architect’s December 2025 issue featuring the 2025 Awards of Excellence winners of our annual awards for future projects: www.canadianarchitect.com/december-2025/
Congrats to the winners posted here: www.canadianarchitect.com/category/awa...
#architecture #architects #architectureawards
Congrats to the winners posted here: www.canadianarchitect.com/category/awa...
#architecture #architects #architectureawards
December 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Canadian Architect’s December 2025 issue featuring the 2025 Awards of Excellence winners of our annual awards for future projects: www.canadianarchitect.com/december-2025/
Congrats to the winners posted here: www.canadianarchitect.com/category/awa...
#architecture #architects #architectureawards
Congrats to the winners posted here: www.canadianarchitect.com/category/awa...
#architecture #architects #architectureawards
This is a great explainer for why protecting employment areas is so important.
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is a great explainer for why protecting employment areas is so important.
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...
youtu.be/lHpifQ-A6HU?...
This ambulance *zoomed*, unimpeded, down the “red carpet” on Bathurst today. Good to see.
There can be benefits of transit priority that extend beyond transit.
There can be benefits of transit priority that extend beyond transit.
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This ambulance *zoomed*, unimpeded, down the “red carpet” on Bathurst today. Good to see.
There can be benefits of transit priority that extend beyond transit.
There can be benefits of transit priority that extend beyond transit.
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Great to see the Toronto architecture community giving voice to the importance and impact of the Toronto Green Standards and green roof by-law.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Great to see the Toronto architecture community giving voice to the importance and impact of the Toronto Green Standards and green roof by-law.
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Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.
Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles — if only the carmakers wanted to sell them
A car comically overloaded with plywood? It’s a good ad for a pickup — but also a sign of the incredible amount of money, weight and energy being wasted on
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.
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One of the three trucks in this picture can Carry full size sheets of plywood.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
One of the three trucks in this picture can Carry full size sheets of plywood.
You might find this interesting, which I put together 10 (!!) years ago as part of the prep work to plan for the LRT. Excited the LRT is about to open! Many land us changes adopted at Council. Your nolli diagrams made me think of it.
www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...
www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
You might find this interesting, which I put together 10 (!!) years ago as part of the prep work to plan for the LRT. Excited the LRT is about to open! Many land us changes adopted at Council. Your nolli diagrams made me think of it.
www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...
www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...
Is it too early to think about spring gardening? Not in my opinion. This resource will help those of you in or near Toronto in identifying native plants that suit the conditions you have. Answer a few quick, simple questions, and a list of suitable plants is provided.
www.toronto.ca/nativeplants
www.toronto.ca/nativeplants
Native Plants, Trees & Shrubs
Native plants, trees and shrubs are adapted to local conditions, making them low-maintenance, resilient and better able to withstand and reduce flooding, drought and other environmental pressures. Pla...
www.toronto.ca
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Is it too early to think about spring gardening? Not in my opinion. This resource will help those of you in or near Toronto in identifying native plants that suit the conditions you have. Answer a few quick, simple questions, and a list of suitable plants is provided.
www.toronto.ca/nativeplants
www.toronto.ca/nativeplants
Seeing smaller “urban sized” garbage trucks in Toronto makes me unreasonably happy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Seeing smaller “urban sized” garbage trucks in Toronto makes me unreasonably happy.
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Just passed thru Exhibition Place & it’s rammed. They’re parking people on the grass (🤦🏽). Royal winter fair. Soccer game at BMO. The notion that the Ex is used two weeks a year is false.
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Just passed thru Exhibition Place & it’s rammed. They’re parking people on the grass (🤦🏽). Royal winter fair. Soccer game at BMO. The notion that the Ex is used two weeks a year is false.
Delicious & cozy weekend morning breakfast sandwich, thanks to some neighbourhood retail. The sandwich was huge! Is it symbolic that I have to loosen my belt…?
(Made Rite Coffee)
(Made Rite Coffee)
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Delicious & cozy weekend morning breakfast sandwich, thanks to some neighbourhood retail. The sandwich was huge! Is it symbolic that I have to loosen my belt…?
(Made Rite Coffee)
(Made Rite Coffee)
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I’m going to make an end-of-year update to my Canada intercity transportation map by the end of November. Let me know what bus and rail services I’m missing or changes I should be aware of.
It’s a big country and I’ll probably miss something.
seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/
It’s a big country and I’ll probably miss something.
seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/
Canada Intercity Transport Map
All of Canada’s transport links, in one map This map depicts all intercity and regional bus and rail connections in Canada. Information for each transit agency and intercity carrier is availa…
seanmarshall.ca
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I’m going to make an end-of-year update to my Canada intercity transportation map by the end of November. Let me know what bus and rail services I’m missing or changes I should be aware of.
It’s a big country and I’ll probably miss something.
seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/
It’s a big country and I’ll probably miss something.
seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/
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This is brilliant.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is brilliant.
Ever wonder about the architect behind Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto (70s render pictured), Robson Square or Simon Fraser in Vancouver, the Canadian Embassy in Washington…?
I have. Really fascinating documentary about Arthur Erickson “Beauty Between the Lines” screened last night at TMU. Recommended.
I have. Really fascinating documentary about Arthur Erickson “Beauty Between the Lines” screened last night at TMU. Recommended.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ever wonder about the architect behind Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto (70s render pictured), Robson Square or Simon Fraser in Vancouver, the Canadian Embassy in Washington…?
I have. Really fascinating documentary about Arthur Erickson “Beauty Between the Lines” screened last night at TMU. Recommended.
I have. Really fascinating documentary about Arthur Erickson “Beauty Between the Lines” screened last night at TMU. Recommended.
We remember.
Sometimes I make mistakes & find myself in a grocery store at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year. Yet an announcement was made, people stopped moving, & fell silent. Quite moving that it happens everywhere.
Sometimes I make mistakes & find myself in a grocery store at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year. Yet an announcement was made, people stopped moving, & fell silent. Quite moving that it happens everywhere.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We remember.
Sometimes I make mistakes & find myself in a grocery store at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year. Yet an announcement was made, people stopped moving, & fell silent. Quite moving that it happens everywhere.
Sometimes I make mistakes & find myself in a grocery store at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year. Yet an announcement was made, people stopped moving, & fell silent. Quite moving that it happens everywhere.
My Bluesky feed has become
a Bluejays feed…
a Bluejays feed…
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My Bluesky feed has become
a Bluejays feed…
a Bluejays feed…
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Walkable city baseball edition:
Andrés Giménez on how you get the feeling of a city by walking it.
Andrés Giménez on how you get the feeling of a city by walking it.
October 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Walkable city baseball edition:
Andrés Giménez on how you get the feeling of a city by walking it.
Andrés Giménez on how you get the feeling of a city by walking it.
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This is an invitation to join me on my newly opened Bluesky account. I used to share time-lapse sketches & I’m hoping to continue showcasing interesting sites from around the world through Bluesky. For now, I’m using this as a friendly invitation to connect here. #UrbanDesign #architecture #sketch
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is an invitation to join me on my newly opened Bluesky account. I used to share time-lapse sketches & I’m hoping to continue showcasing interesting sites from around the world through Bluesky. For now, I’m using this as a friendly invitation to connect here. #UrbanDesign #architecture #sketch
Confederation Station opened today!
For the first time in my life, there is a train station in reasonable distance to where I grew up (Stoney Creek, Ontario). Connecting to Toronto, Niagara Falls, places in between & beyond. Good news!
For the first time in my life, there is a train station in reasonable distance to where I grew up (Stoney Creek, Ontario). Connecting to Toronto, Niagara Falls, places in between & beyond. Good news!
October 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Confederation Station opened today!
For the first time in my life, there is a train station in reasonable distance to where I grew up (Stoney Creek, Ontario). Connecting to Toronto, Niagara Falls, places in between & beyond. Good news!
For the first time in my life, there is a train station in reasonable distance to where I grew up (Stoney Creek, Ontario). Connecting to Toronto, Niagara Falls, places in between & beyond. Good news!
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The City of Toronto is proposing a new Cultural Districts Program to recognize and celebrate unique cultural areas across the city, including Little Jamaica, West Chinatown, and Church-Wellesley.
On October 28 at 6pm, join us to learn more!
Register here: https://ow.ly/4Zyh50XghO2
On October 28 at 6pm, join us to learn more!
Register here: https://ow.ly/4Zyh50XghO2
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The City of Toronto is proposing a new Cultural Districts Program to recognize and celebrate unique cultural areas across the city, including Little Jamaica, West Chinatown, and Church-Wellesley.
On October 28 at 6pm, join us to learn more!
Register here: https://ow.ly/4Zyh50XghO2
On October 28 at 6pm, join us to learn more!
Register here: https://ow.ly/4Zyh50XghO2