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Manhattan Building Heights

Manhattan functions as having two peak land value intersections, two CBDs at the centre of a vast and prosperous metro area.

James Street, Hamilton

#supercrawl #artcrawl #hamilton #foodtruck #meat

James Street, Hamilton

#Supercrawl #James Street #Hamilton #Photography #Art Crawl #Nightlife

In St. Louis, as in many other cities, decline and displacement occurred when key policies, prejudices, and plans interacted with broad economic restructuring to devastate poor and minority communities, while leaving White and middle-class communities largely intact. Amidst overall population loss and neighborhood decline are pockets of prosperity and gentrification within the central city.

It's been about a year since protests first began in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, and conversations about race were renewed all over the USA.

A recent paper questions how such divisions arrive in cities and specifically asks whether the field of planning, abstaining from specific considerations of race and minority, enhanced the effect of segregation in St. Louis. We often hear that planning is about land use, form and pattern. But the authors argue that "planners face an ethical obligation to plan for the future of their cities in a way that seeks to reconcile the structured race and class inequalities of the divergent city" and that a refusal to embrace that obligation in unequal cities actively enhances the problem.

#Urban Planning #Race #USA #missouri #st louis #Academic #Journal #Research #Urban Geography

Allen Street, New York

#NYC #Street Art #Forget Me Not #Graffiti #LES #New York

Grand Street, New York

Rolling doors in New York’s Lower East Side painted by artist Nepoart.

#Nepoart #LES #NYC #New York #Lower East Side #Street Art #Graffiti

Gardiner Museum, Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario

#Urban Design #Toronto

St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario

#Toronto #UofT #Architecture

Lawrence Ave. West, Toronto, Ontario

#Weston Village #Farmer's Market #Toronto #Toronto NIA #Suburbs

Allen St, New York

#graffiti #street art #newyork #les #The Lost Cause #Portlanf #Arts

Bloor Street, Toronto

#Bloor Street #Toronto #Ontario #Fruit #Grocery #Summer

Division Street, New York

This public plaza at the bottom of Division Street at the intersection with Canal Street is part of the NYC Department of Transportation’s strategy to create new public spaces by reclaiming underused road spaces.

Relying chiefly on Community partnerships, the Department of Transportation offers several such strategies to increase pedestrian infrastructure on New York streets.

Check out the NYC Plaza Program

#NYC #Urban Design #Pedestrian Design #Urban Planning

Harbord Street, Toronto

Cyclists in the morning rush on Harbord Street.

#Rush Hour #Bike Lane #Toronto #Cyclist

Christie Pits, Toronto

As the sun sets every Sunday during the height of the summer in Toronto, people gather on a hill in Christie Pits. With blankets, drinks and snacks in hand, people kick back to enjoy a movie with hundreds of their neighbours. This park has long been a central place for the community and its history mirrors that of its community.

Some thoughts on the history of Christie Pits and what uses like this movie night mean for its future.

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#Christie Pits #Christie Pits Film Festival #Bloor Street #Toronto #Summer