By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
I have long maintained that architects have all but abandoned urban design to people who are uniquely unqualified to do that job–urban planners, and traffic engineers, as well as local, state and provincial politicians, ministries, departments and boards who oversee them. If you want to create built forms and the public room that they all […]
By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Business Coaching , Business Models , Design , Entrepreneurship , Finance , Green for Real , Ideas , Investing , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Urban Economics
(This article first appeared in OBJ, https://obj.ca/article/opinion-coach-houses-open-door-better-urban-planning-ottawa.) As OBJ readers may already know, the city of Ottawa recently changed its bylaws to permit construction of coach houses on many existing residential lots. This is part of a worldwide effort to densify and intensify existing urban areas to make them more interesting, more diverse, and more […]
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
Street Facing Hoops–Oops Not on our Street At some point, communities everywhere will have to decide on why we build towns, cities and
By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized
Main Street Carleton Place Ontario What’s right about this piece of townscape in Carleton Place Ontario? 1. active use at grade 2. built-to
