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Urban Sprawl
Plan hinges on breaking our car habit
Coping with growth means steering people toward transit use
By WALLACE IMMEN
TORONTO, ONT. -- To envision how the city of Toronto will grow in the future, look at the suburban-style homes for families being built on the weedy west-side site of a former tractor plant.
Halton tightens reins on new growth
With a promise of law and order to protect the wide, wide west, the region is sticking to its guns to manage healthy, new urban development
By WALLACE IMMEN
MILTON, ONT. -- The billboard in a field on Toronto's western frontier boasts of manifest destiny.''The wide, wide west is now wide, wide open,'' reads the developer's swaggering slogan for homes on broad lots soon to sprout on the farmland.
The trouble with dense cities
Mississauga tries to reverse the effects of urban sprawl while Caledon aims to save its countryside from obliteration
By WALLACE IMMEN
MISSISSAUGA -- Set your mind back to the 1950s, when homes began to sprout on the farmland of Mississauga to offer a carefree, car-oriented alternative to Toronto, the big city to the east.
Growing pains plague Calgary
By DAWN WALTON
CALGARY -- In many ways, Calgary is a relative teenager compared with other world cities.
Uxbridge project seen as test case
Durham's official plan said no. So did a lot of people. That doesn't matter.
By WALLACE IMMEN
TORONTO -- Joey Tanenbaum likes to remember the day he first took his daughter to the wooded estate he bought in farm country northeast of Toronto.''She said, ''Oh, this looks just like the Garden of Eden.' '' The developer chose to call the land Gan Eden, the Hebrew name for the quintessential paradise.
Transformed by urban sprawl, Vancouver says its plan is working
By ROBERT MATAS
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. -- In the middle of a quiet afternoon, it takes about 45 minutes to drive from the slums of Vancouver,
past strip malls and shopping centres, to the city of Port Coquitlam. In rush hour, the commute can take twice as long.
York Region tries to get a grip on growth
The plans are for compact housing; the question is who makes them stick
By WALLACE IMMEN
VAUGHAN, ONT. -- Prepare for a gut-wrenching rush as the roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland plunges down its track.But for a real sense of speed, don't look down, look around.
Sprawling city at a crossroads
As Toronto and its suburbs grow relentlessly,
the challenge will be to learn from past mistakes
and develop wisely
By WALLACE IMMEN
Can anything be done to stop sprawl in the Toronto area from becoming ever more disfiguring and uncontrollable, steadily driving down the quality of life in the city?
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