@brianlilley@BenMulroney “If the airport were to cease operating…”
That is a hypothetical. Another example: “If Brian Lilley maintained basic journalistic standards, he would read a clause that begins with the word ‘if,’ understand it in context, and explain accurately what it means.”
It appears @BenMulroney made a false claim on air and won’t explain it.
For the record, he is getting exactly the policy result he wants and there is no Toronto Deep State.
@Yaminashi69@ProjectEND@BenMulroney In truth, a master plan for the park should have robustly considered scenarios for its redevelopment. The YTZ lease was within a decade of expiring. It is absolutely the job of civil servants to assess and develop policy ideas.
It almost sounds like he’s referring to this article of mine, with a speculative design by the private landscape architecture firm PUBLIC WORK
https://t.co/CSFOPpyUlD
Still waiting on an answer to this from @BenMulroney.
Where is the expensive report with “polling and data” that the City Of Toronto produced arguing for the island airport to be closed?
Where is this example of “activism” by the civil service?
@ZoeCoombes@UrbanCourtyard Laneways weren’t universal, and the large infra came concurrently with highways, trucking, and Metro sprawl.
It’s a good observation.
@SomeTOGuy@BenMulroney No. It’s one page, which restates a long-standing policy preference, in a huge report.
Vs:
“Why is city staff wasting time and money on this? And these things aren’t cheap. They got to do all sorts of research and what have you and polling and data… That’s a lot of money.”
@SomeTOGuy@BenMulroney This is one (1) page in a major policy document about the islands. That one page does not match what @BenMulroney was describing.
@Cobylefko@JustinShubow@mcmansionhell@edwinheathcote@crassociati People can and do hold aesthetic positions without yelling about What Beauty Is.
Architectural education has problems; also Shubow is a rube with no understanding of architectural history
and he is bending the knee to the world’s tackiest fascist.
@EricDLombardi Read my work. Read Azure. Talk to Joel Leon and @ToSoArch, who are in the weeds trying to empower good designers and good design.
You know the Impossible Toronto work led by VAARO and Gabriel Fain.
SOCA.
The built environment doesn’t get made by Twitter and Midjourney.