Glenn Miller

Oct 21, 2024 | spacing.ca | Jessie Ye |Albert Koehl |David Simor |Glenn Miller

It’s a beautiful Sunday morning in High Park, cyclists are lapping the loop while families stroll along the winding sidewalks. There isn’t a car in sight, but not everyone is happy about that. Since weekend car access was banned in 2020, “High Park Access for All” protestors have argued that cars are essential for accessibility. While seemingly well-intentioned, these claims misuse accessibility language to divide transit and disability advocates, aiming to restore a car-centric status quo.

Sep 2, 2024 | renewcanada.net | ReNew Canada |Glenn Miller

By Glenn MillerLong before Justin Trudeau committed Canada to achieving net-zero by 2050, cities across the country were already hard at work devising community energy plans to reduce emissions generated by urban development. Many of the boldest plans centred on creating or expanding district energy (DE) projects—thermal grids of underground piping, in most cases connected to a central plant, that distributes hot water for heating or chilled water for cooling.

May 16, 2024 | spacing.ca | Mahtot Gebresselassie |Tricia Wood |Glenn Miller |Thorben Wieditz

In a recent ranking index, Toronto is listed as the third worst congested city in the world (after London and Dublin). The metric used by the company (Tomtom) is how long it takes to drive 10 kilometers. Toronto ranks high for terrible congestion by other indices with other metrics, too. A recent article by the Star offered technology as the solution to the wicked problem of traffic congestion (again).

Mar 4, 2024 | highbrowmagazine.com | Glenn Miller

I turned the corner off Park Avenue and started looking for my newly acquired home. There it is, I thought, that one there. On the tree-lined stretch of stately condos and apartment buildings, the structure that had technically been in my possession since 7:37 p.m. two weeks ago Tuesday—the determined hour and minute my father suffered his heart attack—announced itself like Dad invariably did when entering into any setting: loudly, with exuberance, and flashing money.

Jan 4, 2024 | spacing.ca | Glenn Miller |Dylan Reid |Albert Koehl |Gillian Kranias

Ontario’s first attempts to keep pedestrians safe on our roads began a century ago in 1923 with the passage of the Highway Traffic Act. Back then, the focus of regulators was on a relatively new phenomenon — the automobile. Toronto’s roads were filling up with cars; paved roads and traffic lights were still a rarity. And the fast-growing car industry had yet to launch its infamous ‘jaywalking’ PR campaign to shift the blame for road accidents from motorists to pedestrians.