Alex Bozikovic

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Architecture critic @globeandmail | @uoftdaniels | Husband to @livmendelsohn | Dad

[Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic]

I will no longer be actively posting on this site. Find me on the other place, please! And of course @globeandmail.

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@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.”

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Happy to be proven wrong and to take these tweets down, @BenMulroney.

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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.

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Hi @BenMulroney. On your show you talk about a “city staff” “report” that recommends Billy Bishop airport be turned into a park.

Where is that report?

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@Yaminashi69 @ProjectEND @BenMulroney Gil Penalosa had nothing to do with this document and I, obviously, don’t work for the city.

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Hi @BenMulroney. On your show you talk about a “city staff” “report” that recommends Billy Bishop airport be turned into a park.

Where is that report?

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@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.

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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

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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?

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Hi @BenMulroney. On your show you talk about a “city staff” “report” that recommends Billy Bishop airport be turned into a park.

Where is that report?

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@ZoeCoombes @UrbanCourtyard Laneways weren’t universal, and the large infra came concurrently with highways, trucking, and Metro sprawl.

It’s a good observation.

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@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.”

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@BenMulroney, what do you say?

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@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.

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@normsworld @DechampsAlan @BenMulroney @NoJetsTO Is this one page the “report” you’re referring to, @BenMulroney?

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@adashky @edwardrow

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@Robert_Kokonis My post was meant for Bluesky and I'll move it there. Question: Have you ever worked for Nieuport or Porter or the Port Authority?

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@g_meslin Each one of lower quality than the previous iteration. Don’t even look at what they did to the doors and windows upstairs.

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@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.

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@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.