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Bonus entry 5: My submission to Waterfront Toronto Quayside development consultations

Note: Waterfront Toronto’s initial consultations on Sidewalk Labs’ 1,496-page Master Innovation and Development Plan ended yesterday. The results will be used in some way to inform something that Waterfront Toronto has planned for the Fall. Maybe it’ll be a report … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 15: The MIDP Volume 1: The Plans, Introduction

In which I consider the line between fulfilling the RFP and overreaching it, reflect on the way Sidewalk Labs’ plan mirrors the long-discredited national-development strategies of the 1960s, dig a bit more into Sidewalk Labs’ desired rule-setting powers, and thank … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 14: The MIDP Overview V: The Partnership

In which Sidewalk Labs drops the sunny language and tells us how they want to get paid for their $39 billion plan, including for a very heavily qualified promise not to sell your personal information, the many, many new bureaucracies … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 13: The MIDP Overview IV: The Plans, parts 3, 4 and 5; Priority Outcomes

Previous Master Innovation and Development Plan liveblog entries available here Moving on… Part 3: The River District: Creating an Innovation Ecosystem to Build on Quayside’s Impact (pp. 130-149) MIDP as sales brochure, Exhibit A There are proportionately more pictures in … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 11: The MIDP Overview II: Project Background

Previous Master Innovation and Development Plan liveblog entries available here The Overview consists of a Foreword (pp. 26-27) not listed in the table of contents) and four sections, three of which correspond to the other three volumes and one of … Continue reading

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