One Great City
My name is Brent Gilliard. I am a freshly-minted urban planner in Toronto. This is where I write, mostly about my adoptive city, to stay happy and sane. There is certainly no shortage of things to say about Toronto these days.
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If or when Cumberland Terrace is redeveloped, I hope the city takes the opportunity to upgrade Cumberland Street itself. East of Bay Street, it’s a dead zone of unfriendly design—public and private—in an otherwise very walkable neighbourhood.
It’s also just looking a little tired and out of date. The purpose of this traffic sign, for example, could be accomplished so much more elegantly with a nice planted bollard.
And of course I hope the new building is required to actually address the street .
When you design a city with cars in mind , the urban fabric becomes incredibly crude and low-res, akin to an early video game - slow down and the jaggedy pixels become clear.
Dan Hill, City of Sound
Conceptual illustration of the potential of the Ontario Place parking lot on Brigantine Cove. We can have great places in Toronto!
(This is, of course, Copenhagen’s famous Nyhavn flipped horizontally.)
