Jason Thorne
@jasonthorne.bsky.social
Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Heritage, housing and sustainability! Featuring pre-fab mass timber panel cores and floors, this is WoodGreen Community Services’ 50-unit affordable rental housing redevelopment of the Danforth Baptist Church by Assembly Corp. and architect McCallum Sather in Toronto's North Riverdale neighbourhood.
February 15, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Heritage, housing and sustainability! Featuring pre-fab mass timber panel cores and floors, this is WoodGreen Community Services’ 50-unit affordable rental housing redevelopment of the Danforth Baptist Church by Assembly Corp. and architect McCallum Sather in Toronto's North Riverdale neighbourhood.
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We’re hiring Research Trainees for the 2026 Toronto Employment Survey! 🏙️
Students in Planning, Geography, GIS, or Environmental Studies: get hands‑on City Planning experience collecting employment and land‑use data across Toronto.
📅 Apply by February 23
🔗https://ow.ly/urrU50Yfp7C
Students in Planning, Geography, GIS, or Environmental Studies: get hands‑on City Planning experience collecting employment and land‑use data across Toronto.
📅 Apply by February 23
🔗https://ow.ly/urrU50Yfp7C
February 13, 2026 at 9:28 PM
We’re hiring Research Trainees for the 2026 Toronto Employment Survey! 🏙️
Students in Planning, Geography, GIS, or Environmental Studies: get hands‑on City Planning experience collecting employment and land‑use data across Toronto.
📅 Apply by February 23
🔗https://ow.ly/urrU50Yfp7C
Students in Planning, Geography, GIS, or Environmental Studies: get hands‑on City Planning experience collecting employment and land‑use data across Toronto.
📅 Apply by February 23
🔗https://ow.ly/urrU50Yfp7C
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U of T’s Maps and Data Library recently published a blog by Jeff Allen our Data Viz Lead, on a tool he built for viewing historial aerial imagery of Toronto collected from various sources. https://ow.ly/rqu150YfERX
February 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
U of T’s Maps and Data Library recently published a blog by Jeff Allen our Data Viz Lead, on a tool he built for viewing historial aerial imagery of Toronto collected from various sources. https://ow.ly/rqu150YfERX
Laneway living in Ossington (Toronto).
February 13, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Laneway living in Ossington (Toronto).
Not many investments achieve as many public policy goals as investments in new public transit … Chief Planner and Chief Congestion Officer enjoying a trip on Toronto’s new Eglinton Line!
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Not many investments achieve as many public policy goals as investments in new public transit … Chief Planner and Chief Congestion Officer enjoying a trip on Toronto’s new Eglinton Line!
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I don’t know how many people join Bluesky each day, but my sense is that more & more people are discovering the outstanding community/conversation here (best on social media) about better cities. I still think STARTER PACKS are a superpower. I’ve made many, but here’s my first again. Please share.
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I don’t know how many people join Bluesky each day, but my sense is that more & more people are discovering the outstanding community/conversation here (best on social media) about better cities. I still think STARTER PACKS are a superpower. I’ve made many, but here’s my first again. Please share.
Important job alert! Toronto’s City Planning Division is looking for a new Director of Urban Design. If you have a passion for cities and for the importance of architecture, urban design, art and heritage in successful city-building, you should check out our job posting at tinyurl.com/3e8s3br8
February 10, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Important job alert! Toronto’s City Planning Division is looking for a new Director of Urban Design. If you have a passion for cities and for the importance of architecture, urban design, art and heritage in successful city-building, you should check out our job posting at tinyurl.com/3e8s3br8
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After years of producing content in the digital space I'm starting a Patreon.
It will have both satirical news stories via The Rovélo Record (full stories) and the advocacy content you might expect from Rovélo Creative in this space and of course much more.
www.patreon.com/cw/rovelocre...
It will have both satirical news stories via The Rovélo Record (full stories) and the advocacy content you might expect from Rovélo Creative in this space and of course much more.
www.patreon.com/cw/rovelocre...
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
After years of producing content in the digital space I'm starting a Patreon.
It will have both satirical news stories via The Rovélo Record (full stories) and the advocacy content you might expect from Rovélo Creative in this space and of course much more.
www.patreon.com/cw/rovelocre...
It will have both satirical news stories via The Rovélo Record (full stories) and the advocacy content you might expect from Rovélo Creative in this space and of course much more.
www.patreon.com/cw/rovelocre...
Freddie in Leslieville (Toronto).
February 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Freddie in Leslieville (Toronto).
‘Now We Have a Voice’: Indigenous Architects Redesign Canada www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/r...
‘Now We Have a Voice’: Indigenous Architects Redesign Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
‘Now We Have a Voice’: Indigenous Architects Redesign Canada www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/r...
300 new homes, including 90 affordable homes, are coming soon to the site of a former parking lot in Toronto’s Cabbagetown neighbourhood. A new 35-storey “Housing Now” rental tower was approved this week, designed by Alison Brooks Architects in collaboration with architects—Alliance.
February 7, 2026 at 1:04 PM
300 new homes, including 90 affordable homes, are coming soon to the site of a former parking lot in Toronto’s Cabbagetown neighbourhood. A new 35-storey “Housing Now” rental tower was approved this week, designed by Alison Brooks Architects in collaboration with architects—Alliance.
Attention artists, tactical urbanists, designers and just generally creative people! As our new island at Ookwemin Minising continues to take shape, we’re also thinking about what it can be right now. We’ve issued an RFP for a pop-up gathering space on the island. Info at www.c40.org/work-with-c40
February 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Attention artists, tactical urbanists, designers and just generally creative people! As our new island at Ookwemin Minising continues to take shape, we’re also thinking about what it can be right now. We’ve issued an RFP for a pop-up gathering space on the island. Info at www.c40.org/work-with-c40
From vacant lot to 65 homes. New midrise in the Junction by Block Developments and RAW Architects.
February 5, 2026 at 12:07 PM
From vacant lot to 65 homes. New midrise in the Junction by Block Developments and RAW Architects.
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The Planning Research and Analytics team in @planning.cityof.toronto.ca has published a Development Pipeline dashboard. It shows development activity over the past 5 years.
Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej
#Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards
Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej
#Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards
February 4, 2026 at 6:53 PM
The Planning Research and Analytics team in @planning.cityof.toronto.ca has published a Development Pipeline dashboard. It shows development activity over the past 5 years.
Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej
#Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards
Have a look here: lnkd.in/g8pBE-Ej
#Toronto #DevelopmentPipeline #RE #BI #Tableau #dashboards
“How do you plan and design a city that is safe and functional while also leaving room for spontaneity and serendipity?” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
In Praise of Urban Disorder
The book Messy Cities looks at unregulated and informal development from Toronto to Tokyo to show how less planning can deliver more vibrant neighborhoods.
www.bloomberg.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:13 PM
“How do you plan and design a city that is safe and functional while also leaving room for spontaneity and serendipity?” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Floating sauna and cold plunge on the Toronto waterfront.
February 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Floating sauna and cold plunge on the Toronto waterfront.
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DTAH is revitalizing Seaton Park for the Bloor-Annex BIA!
Share your thoughts to [email protected] by Sunday, Feb. 15, at 5 p.m.
Learn more: www.bloorannex.ca/news-events/...
Share your thoughts to [email protected] by Sunday, Feb. 15, at 5 p.m.
Learn more: www.bloorannex.ca/news-events/...
February 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
DTAH is revitalizing Seaton Park for the Bloor-Annex BIA!
Share your thoughts to [email protected] by Sunday, Feb. 15, at 5 p.m.
Learn more: www.bloorannex.ca/news-events/...
Share your thoughts to [email protected] by Sunday, Feb. 15, at 5 p.m.
Learn more: www.bloorannex.ca/news-events/...
“I am sort of a spy" - street photographer Vivian Maier, born 100 years ago today.
February 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
“I am sort of a spy" - street photographer Vivian Maier, born 100 years ago today.
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"Multiculturalism Shapes Canadian Life. Does it Shape our Architecture?" Read the inaugural essay in my new monthly series of Canadian architecture criticism — EXPO. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...
Multiculturalism Shapes Canadian Life. Does it Shape our Architecture? — EXPO the magazine
As the country’s diverse, multi-ethnic population now finds proud expression in arts and culture, the built environment stands at the precipice of a quiet evolution.
www.expothemagazine.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:11 PM
"Multiculturalism Shapes Canadian Life. Does it Shape our Architecture?" Read the inaugural essay in my new monthly series of Canadian architecture criticism — EXPO. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...
Jackson Place Laneway digital collages in the Junction … by artists Daniel Mazzone and Benjamin Mitchley.
January 31, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Jackson Place Laneway digital collages in the Junction … by artists Daniel Mazzone and Benjamin Mitchley.
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Black Public Joy is on shelves in large and local bookstores across Canada & the U.S. Through practice stories across many cities & research, I assert that Black public joy, and public joy of all kinds is civic, cultural & spatial infrastructure. DM for book talk & public joy mapping engagements.
January 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Black Public Joy is on shelves in large and local bookstores across Canada & the U.S. Through practice stories across many cities & research, I assert that Black public joy, and public joy of all kinds is civic, cultural & spatial infrastructure. DM for book talk & public joy mapping engagements.
Packed house! It must be a conversation about zoning.
(Book talk for the new book “Impossible Toronto: On the Courtyard Learning from European Blocks” tonight at Type Books).
(Book talk for the new book “Impossible Toronto: On the Courtyard Learning from European Blocks” tonight at Type Books).
January 29, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Packed house! It must be a conversation about zoning.
(Book talk for the new book “Impossible Toronto: On the Courtyard Learning from European Blocks” tonight at Type Books).
(Book talk for the new book “Impossible Toronto: On the Courtyard Learning from European Blocks” tonight at Type Books).
Winter Stations is back! Toronto’s annual exhibition of temporary outdoor art installations at Woodbine Beach launches Feb. 16. I got to be part of this year’s jury, and here’s some of the winning entries that you’ll be seeing!
January 28, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Winter Stations is back! Toronto’s annual exhibition of temporary outdoor art installations at Woodbine Beach launches Feb. 16. I got to be part of this year’s jury, and here’s some of the winning entries that you’ll be seeing!
Reposted by Jason Thorne
CN Tower observation deck renovation honours "monument to Canadian life": www.dezeen.com/2026/01/26/cn-tower-renovation-superkul-bv/
January 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM
CN Tower observation deck renovation honours "monument to Canadian life": www.dezeen.com/2026/01/26/cn-tower-renovation-superkul-bv/
I’m all-in for hyper-local Starter Packs (especially when they’re for my neighbourhood!)
Hey everyone - I started a Toronto East-enders starter pack. I'm always curious about who else lives in our zone - roughly Don Valley to Victoria Park, waterfront to Taylor Creek (but flexible). I know there's people I follow who I didn't include, so reply for me to add you. go.bsky.app/9psq3Hq
January 27, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I’m all-in for hyper-local Starter Packs (especially when they’re for my neighbourhood!)