Stefan Novakovic

"What happens when a community land trust leads the design conversation?" In @AzureMagazine, Chiyi Tam & I look at how community-led development — like CLTs, co-housing & co-ops — is re-inventing design as a collaborative praxis and fighting NIMBYism. 1/ azuremagazine.com/article/commun…

“The ReHousing initiative shines a civic spotlight onto the informal — and disappearing — multi-unit densities that have historically provided affordable living homes across Toronto.” azuremagazine.com/article/rehous…

@rowanlubke @AzureMagazine Wow Where's this from?

@NovakovicTO @AzureMagazine Hey did you guys see this?

in @AzureMagazine, I write about Janna Levitt's elegant Toronto multiplex, the challenges of densifying inner suburbs across North America, and the fight against "deconversions" of multi-family dwellings into single-family mansions. azuremagazine.com/article/rehous…

Leslie Lookout Park has been named one of @AzureMagazine's top 10 public spaces in the world for 2024! Designed by CCxA, @GH3architects and @Arup, Leslie Lookout Park includes an urban beach and lookout tower giving you a unique view of Toronto from the Port Lands. “Who would have thought that a park in the middle of an industrial zone could be so peaceful?” Check out @AzureMagazine's review and the full list here: tinyurl.com/ycx6y9jp #YourCityYourPortLands #PortLands #CityBuilding #Toronto

A preview of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. After all this, there's actually something to look forward to. azuremagazine.com/article/the-bi…

In @AzureMagazine, I peek into Toronto’s maligned and much-awaited Eglinton Crosstown LRT. What’s inside? An elegant design and a litany of civic failures. azuremagazine.com/article/the-bi…

Denied entry to the @CIBCSQUARE park yet again (which is a privately-owned public space) because my camera was too nice for security's liking? The @cityoftoronto POPS system is broken if private security is allowed to decide which members of the public can use these spaces.

Reporting that 1% of Torontonians bike to work – without qualification – is not good journalism

Mercifully, the city never installed bike lanes on Wellington and traffic moves freely!

"In that moment, a strange sort of silence fills the room." In @AzureMagazine, I talk to Akb co-founder Robert Kastelic about the intimacies of design and living with a life-changing diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease at the age of 47. azuremagazine.com/article/robert…

Truly a Canadian hero. I spent a lot of time with him in remote northern Indigenous communities in the 1980s when he led Manitoba's Aboriginal Justice Inquiry. Later he led the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, inspired by South Africa's TRC. He helped Canadians learn the truth.

Please share 🫶🏾 The script/movie is set in an art gallery and we’re hoping to fill it with art from local Black artists 🤎🤎🤎 shharine.co/contact

Most Torontoians are multimodal - using transit, cycling, Uber, walking or driving - as the circumstance allows. The Province is spending billions to accelerate regional sprawl - knowing full well that those cars end up clogging city streets. In addition - they are enveloped in a billion dollar transit boondoggle with an entire LRT system built, mostly in a tunnel below ground, sitting empty and unused. Blaming cyclists for congestion is flat-earther type public policy. Disconnected from reality.

📣 Rocket Riders! 💥 Episode 021: What is York University Station? 🎧 bit.ly/4fa3j26 🙌 We visit @VincentTuronno's alma mater of York University to check out the cool subway station right on campus.

"With the passing of Klaus Nienkämper, the founder of the eponymous Toronto-based manufacturer, the global design community has lost a legend." azuremagazine.com/article/in-mem…

This is aggressively stupid. It will accomplish nothing but to get people killed.

I'm going to be doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow about the speculator series! Get in there and ask me some questions! reddit.com/r/Detroit/comm…

After 4 amazing days at the @TIFF_NET Lightbox full of film screenings, panel discussions, and even a walking tour, the 6th annual @ADFILMFEST Toronto has come to a close. 🎬 Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the festival such a success! torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/announcements/…

Saying ‘food delivery dudes use bike lanes’ as though it’s an argument against them. We’ve created this parallel economy of precarious, risky gig work - damn straight those people should have safe routes. ‘I want my burger delivered to my door, but only via mixed traffic’. 🙄

"Power, it seems, is belatedly shifting toward the people who build and away from the people who oppose buildings." A lovely and humane piece — part elegy, part hymn — on the housing crisis by @SimonLewsen in @TheLocal_TO. thelocal.to/density-the-an…