What Would It Take To Make Toronto Beautiful?

Lisa Rochon hosts a roundtable conversation to examine the reasons for the city's architectural mediocrity.

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February 8, 2005, 11:00 AM PST

A panel of leading Toronto architects including Ken Greenberg, Don Schmitt, Bruce Kuwabara, Janet Rosenberg and Siamak Hariri outline the systemic and other factors they believe are responsible for Toronto's failure to foster quality urban design. These include a lack of a design champion, a fractured council with no executive branch, an inability for decision makers to think long term, and a planning tool kit that contains the wrong tools. The panel members relate their experiences working abroad, drawing comparisons between how the planning process operates in Toronto versus other world cities.

Thanks to Geoffrey Singer

FULL STORY: Can our city be beautiful in the next five years?

Monday, February 7, 2005 in The Globe and Mail

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