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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 3h

This place was beautiful, even its “ruined” state, and Francesca‘s attention is beautiful too

Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 14h

Leading With Landscape: a heartening day taking stock of Waterfront Toronto’s 25 years. With MVVA, West 8, Field Operations, PUBLIC WORK, Ken Greenberg and many others. It’s been a successful run building landscape, urbanism, and a richer design culture.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“His persona as a tough-on-crime, penny-pinching populist feels entirely disconnected from the eager urban planner who entered office at 32 full of ideas about expanding bike lanes, raising property taxes on the rich and cutting funding to the police.”

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Worst People in Toronto Support Bradford '26

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s a general vibe that we have done the work of planning reform. Truth is, we’ve barely started.

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The not-that-surprising skeleton key for Toronto politics.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reconciliation is.. an ongoing project.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This pattern makes no sense and never has. North York Centre achieves some actual urbanity along Yonge Street, but that street is a highway - and the district is surrounded by a ring road surrounded by an ocean of houses

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Years of expensive construction, which will muck up car traffic, to make everything worse

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tobi Lutke, our most outspoken billionaire, does not understand cities or public space or transportation. Someone needs to put him in a room with Mike Bloomberg and Janette Sadik-Khan. I'm serious. @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social @jskstreet.bsky.social

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The corollary to this is that progressive urbanism must also be at least a little bit libertarian to be liberatory; to get organic, informal networks you need to allow the uncontrolled and unpredictable, whether that's different and novel housing or jobs or amusement.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An elderly couple doesn't like the new housing going up next door. So what? This is not news. They'll suffer minor inconvenience. But no one is forcing them to move. And they have the freedom to sell their big multimillion-dollar house and live comfortably elsewhere.

cbc.ca

Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News

An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe Google Toronto rents before demonstrating that you have no idea what's gone on with them in the last decade? www.blogto.com/real-estate-...

Tweet from Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻
@calxandr
Olivia Chow is herself the bad landlord. For three years, she’s fumbled the housing file: property values collapsed; rents & taxes sky-rocketed; little new housing was built, especially for unhoused & low-income Torontonians. Our city is in crisis: we urgently need change.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A 1957 report of the Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We let national immigration policy be thwarted by the median council votes in Toronto and Vancouver and it's nuts to me that's not how this is understood.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is right. Which is why local government needs to focus on the physical city and *actually improve it.* In Toronto, the left has failed on both of those points.

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's like a gift wrapped idea for Toronto conservatives to try and save money without promising cuts and it's fix Toronto's transit capital costs. But that would require you know... work to figure out what's wrong. Best to promise nonsense instead. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/chw263

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What the dickens is going on with Toronto's transit construction costs?

City Hall Watcher #263: Guest Damien Moule on the sky-high cost of building subways in Toronto. Plus: a look at per-capita budgeting.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Toronto parks are a mess. And they offer a huge opportunity to create great places. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

theglobeandmail.com

Is there a design for Toronto’s parks?

Urban green spaces deserve care, attention and planning from design professionals

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Toronto parks are a mess. And they offer a huge opportunity to create great places. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

theglobeandmail.com

Is there a design for Toronto’s parks?

Urban green spaces deserve care, attention and planning from design professionals

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Bjarke unveiled. “KING Toronto.” It’s not boring.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

House by GH3; perennial garden in September

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Toronto City Hall, 1965. A bold symbol of the city’s transformation into a global, forward-looking place – with public space at the centre. It also single-handedly transformed the architectural culture of Toronto (and the careers of numerous architects who would go on to shape the city).

A black-and-white photo of Toronto, City Hall and the reflecting pool in front of it, framed by concrete arches. The image was taken at night in 1968.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“We have built at least 10,000 units that nobody ever lived in, and somebody profited off.” This is not a student; it is Gord Perks, outgoing city councillor and until recently the head of Toronto’s planning and housing committee. music.youtube.com/watch?v=g2TZ...

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Gord Perks is worried about the future of Toronto Politics

YouTube video by Toronto the Politics the Show

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some drivers whine like toddlers at any hint of inconvenience, and media treats their whining with respect. Having to drive a couple of blocks out of one’s way is not hard. This does not constitute imprisonment.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yesterday’s walk: all of Yonge Street in Toronto

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The last time I spoke to Phil Verster, he looked me in the eye and expressed with great solemnity his commitment to design excellence at the new East Harbour transit station. Which in the end will look like a half-built Amazon warehouse

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of Toronto’s best public buildings, a national award winner by Shim-Sutcliffe 1998. Two years ago and today. Still a shambles.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Toronto hail last night. This is Downsview. Not the worst of it.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cycling in this part of Montreal is a dream. It is also a lovely place to hang out. With local businesses that do very well. We don’t have to look to Europe to witness great urbanism. And yet here we are in Toronto, doing the exact opposite.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The street should absolutely be car-free. Ridiculous that there are vehicles here, and of course, some are parking illegally in the “delivery zone.” it takes about four vehicles to completely ruin the vibe.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Blackbird Baking, Wanda Ely and Studio Blackwell

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mirvish Village Market, Batay-Csorba Architects

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mirvish Village coming together. (With interesting new signage?)

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yet another example of how Toronto, a city of 3.3 million, makes spatial decisions in a disconnected way, without considering alternatives or communicating that a decision has even been made.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The city's Urban Forestry dept and @diannesaxe.bsky.social recently planted new trees here (in arbitrary locations, based on no plan) but can't do basic stewardship. Urban forestry: $70-million year. Parks operations: $188-million a year. No design, no direction.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Most desirable” places have shrinking populations and are the places where planning makes it hardest to build housing

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Man who wets himself every time he thinks about riding the subway talks tough on international relations

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