Alex Gascon

planning / aff housing

[Megan Kinch @meganysta]

My upcoming piece on homeless construction workers is going to be in this issue. @westendphoenix has published and commissioned the best writing of my life. They made me a writer again after years of being simultaneously ground down and built up by construction work.

[Alex Gascon @GasconAlex]

@holz_bau yet no developer wants to acquire such a lot cause it's "shaped weird"

[Alex Gascon @GasconAlex]

yimby but also scared of billionaires row

[Robert Downey Jr @RobertDowneyJr]

Every 1M spent on bike lanes creates 18 more jobs than the same amount for regular auto centric roads…lets “self-propel” our planets future….#bikelanesrock

[Zach Klein @zachklein]

This family built their own apartment building to accommodate three generations. It's designed to flow like a conventional multi-story house for a single family with allowances to divide into standalone apartments when the children become adults. https://t.co/RqVoJFWZwb

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Fraser River flooding, from space. Amazing movement of topsoil into the sea. Stay safe, all. @NASA

[Owen @OwenInVan]

"Low-density developments produced nearly 4x the greenhouse gas emissions of high-density alternatives, with research finding that doubling urban density can reduce carbon pollution from household travel by nearly half and residential energy use by > 1/3"
https://t.co/8WkZnw4YlM

[Alex Gascon @GasconAlex]

Glad to finally be learning that we all hate zoning laws

[Alex Gascon @GasconAlex]

Since when do single-family home values go down upon construction of an adjacent mid-rise building? They dont though and we need a better compromise to meet the city's housing needs

[Alex Gascon @GasconAlex]

A 45-degree angular plane to transition onto low-rise neighborhoods. For what?
https://t.co/pu23ptVFtW

[Alex Gascon @GasconAlex]

"In today's Globe and Mail, planners, architects and developers lay out the failings of the City of Toronto's Mid-rise guidelines, which were meant to facilitate intensification and have, instead, become an urban design nightmare."

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

If you don’t teach history, you erase history. We learned nothing about residential schools for a reason.

[CityPlanTO @CityPlanTO]

Did you know ONE underground parking spot can cost up to $160,000 to construct? Parking impacts us all, whether through costs of housing development, maintenance fees, or increased emissions. Learn more at our virtual public meetings on June 1-3: https://t.co/ZGCbHUqlLA

[anson @ansonyuu]

girls only want one thing and it's a walkable city with mixed use development

[Alex Gascon @GasconAlex]

Tell Ontario to #Stopthe413, a destructive mega-highway that will pave over important farmland, forests, rivers and a section of the #ONGreenbelt. Sign today. #ONpoli https://t.co/Mr6OsLu5mG

[Alex Gascon @GasconAlex]

@BrentToderian felt this on an emotional level

[Valorie Clark @TheValorieClark]

Stop asking candidates if they “believe in” climate change and start asking if they understand it.

It’s science, not Santa Claus.