Graeme is featured on the cover of the brand new Toronto Standard online daily news portal, with an extensive interview covering the Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative.
This is a 20-year project. We’re talking about a huge number of buildings, hundreds of neighbourhoods and over a million [residents]. It’s about a gradual process of improvement. For now, it’s working in specific communities with different landowners, asking whether we can take down some fences, rezone for mixed use, introduce some modest demonstration projects regarding community development and building upgrade. Then we can make these new ideas viral, the new status quo. Over the long term, this can provide real opportunities for a more sustainable and livable city-region.
These buildings aren´t going anywhere, but the longer we wait, the more difficult the challenge. It’s time to get going.
Read the full interview here, titled ‘Reinventing Suburbia‘. Half newspaper and half blog, the Standard is beautiful to look at, and is a welcome voice in the ongoing local discourse.
