Stefan Novakovic

Senior Editor @AzureMagazine | Formerly @CdnArch, @Urban_Toronto, @Building_mag | Cities + Architecture

[Stefan Novakovic @NovakovicTO]

"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/ https://t.co/WzmnOIfDvT

[West End Phoenix @westendphoenix]

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

https://t.co/Rtjt0GN5eI

[Stefan Novakovic @NovakovicTO]

@rowanlubke @AzureMagazine Wow Where's this from?

[Stefan Novakovic @NovakovicTO]

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. https://t.co/XJ7GW6KqUK

[CreateTO @_CreateTO]

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: https://t.co/9BWz3Lqg98

#YourCityYourPortLands #PortLands #CityBuilding #Toronto

[Stefan Novakovic @NovakovicTO]

A preview of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. After all this, there's actually something to look forward to. https://t.co/qpmPWoGkCM

[Stefan Novakovic @NovakovicTO]

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. https://t.co/qpmPWoGkCM

[Jack Landau @Jack_Landau]

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.

[Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic]

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

[Paul Kulig @PaulKulig_TO]

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

[Stefan Novakovic @NovakovicTO]

"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. https://t.co/s5PDHwwaED

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

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.

[sharine taylor @shharine]

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

https://t.co/ZxhvraNZxR

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

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.

[The Next Stop Podcast @TheNextStopPod]

📣 Rocket Riders!

💥 Episode 021: What is York University Station?

🎧 https://t.co/2HEgn0u8ft

🙌 We visit @VincentTuronno's alma mater of York University to check out the cool subway station right on campus.

[Stefan Novakovic @NovakovicTO]

"With the passing of Klaus Nienkämper, the founder of the eponymous Toronto-based manufacturer, the global design community has lost a legend." https://t.co/7IMGb0uKyb

[Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic]

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

[Aaron Mondry | @amondry.bsky.social @AaronMondry]

I'm going to be doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow about the speculator series! Get in there and ask me some questions! https://t.co/hLOHs4ZNwg

[Toronto Society of Architects @ToSoArch]

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! https://t.co/U4gQvAi0nf

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

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’. 🙄

[Stefan Novakovic @NovakovicTO]

"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. https://t.co/mvaw0oqsel