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Apr 7, 2016 · More than two million people call Toronto home, making it Canada’s largest city and one of North America’s biggest in terms of population. But what makes it one of the world’s most liveable cities? In fact, it placed fourth in both 2010 and 2015 in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual liveable cities list.
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Oct 7, 2023 · Toronto is among the world’s top 25 cities, according to a recent ranking. Resonance Consultancy recently published its World’s Best Cities list for 2024 and Toronto is the highest-ranking...
Toronto was just ranked one of the best cities in the world. Toronto ranked one of the top 20 most tranquil cities in the world. Two Toronto schools ranked among top 15 comprehensive universities in Canada. Toronto ranked 12th overall in the ‘metropolitan areas with populations over 3 million people’ category.
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LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification is the global standard for recognizing environmentally responsible and sustainable real estate design. The number of LEED-certified buildings in downtown Toronto has more than doubled in the last three years, with more than a dozen buildingsin LEED’s uppermost platinum category. It’...
While LEED is all green and fine, some developers are going a step further by pursuing ‘net zero’ projects. Net zero essentially means that a building creates as much energy as it consumes, usually through on-site solar and wind technologies. The Centre for Green Cities at the LEED platinum certified Evergreen Brick Works, for example, is approachi...
It’s not just new buildings getting green, either. A vast partnership of Toronto-based organizations created the Tower Renewal Partnership in 2011 to revitalize neighbourhoods built in the post-war period. The initiative’s goal is to improve energy efficiency and conservation in around 1200 buildings that were constructed between 1945 and 1984 and ...
Energy efficient real estate developments are a major pillar of a broader initiative by the city to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. TransformTO, a collaboration project between the City of Toronto and The Atmospheric Fund, was introduced in 2015 with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. According to city data, b...
Earlier this year, a fun little project by MIT called Treepedia identified Toronto as having one of the world’s “most luxuriant” urban forests. While we wrote an articleto quell the hype of that particular finding (only 10 cities were evaluated), Toronto’s tree cover is undoubtedly impressive. About a fifth of the city is covered by a green canopy,...
Look, we can’t say Toronto is a haven for cyclists, but biking in the city – both in terms of volume and infrastructure – has greatly improved. The downtown core boasts an extensive networkof bike paths and there are signs that vehicles and cyclists are learning to share the road. The city has also seen an explosion of bike sharing services and loc...
A few weeks ago, Google’s holding company, Alphabet, announced plans to develop 12 acres of Toronto’s waterfront in a hyper-tech microcosm that promises to push the boundaries of urban planning. While details of the project are scarce, we can assume that the company’s ‘digital city’ vision will incorporate the greenest of technologies to create a s...
Mar 17, 2013 · Toronto is Ontario’s capital city, Canada’s largest municipality and the fourth largest city in North America ( see also Largest Cities in Canada by Population ). It is made up of the former cities of Toronto, North York, Scarborough, York and Etobicoke, and the former borough of East York.
Oct 3, 2023 · News. Canada. Toronto makes it to world's top cities list as Canadians struggle with rising costs. The list identifies 'Top 100 places to live, visit and invest on the planet' and features...
Nov 11, 2022 · Share. Toronto has been recognized as one of the top 25 best cities across the globe to live and work in for 2023. Resonance Consultancy, a global consultancy firm, recently released its World’s...
