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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 40: The MIDP Volume 3, Partnership Overview: Chapter 2: Innovation and Funding Partnership Proposal, Role 1: Development of Real Estate and Advanced Systems

It’s another long one. Sorry about that. Also, I thought this was regionals. Previous Master Innovation and Development Plan liveblog entries and relevant documents available here The previous chapter dealt with the proposed role of the public administrator (WMOMNBWT) in … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 39: The MIDP Volume 3, Partnership Overview: Chapter 1: The Innovative Design and Economic Acceleration (IDEA) District, Parts 2 and 3

Our journey continues. This section’s important because it details the regulatory changes Sidewalk Labs wants for its section of the Eastern Waterfront. Previous Master Innovation and Development Plan liveblog entries and relevant documents available here Part 2: IDEA District Component … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 37: The MIDP Volume 3, Partnership Overview: Introduction

What the MIDP’s inability to match section headings with its Table of Contents tells us about Sidewalk Labs’ commitment to quality control, attention to detail and basic competence. Also, renewed confusion about what Sidewalk Labs actually is. Previous Master Innovation … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Entry 38: The MIDP Volume 3, Partnership Overview: Chapter 1: The Innovative Design and Economic Acceleration (IDEA) District, Introduction and Part 1

This Volume is essential reading for anyone wanting to cut through Sidewalk Labs’ PR hype and see exactly what Sidewalk Labs is proposing. For those of us foolish to had read the whole thing front-to-back, it’s a distillation of what … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan, Bonus Entry 7: The Toronto Star, Sidewalk Labs, and the tediousness of Us v Them journalism

Over and over again Monday’s Toronto Star editorial praising Sidewalk Labs’ waterfront proposal as preferable to the local-developer-beholden status quo is the type of article that drives policy experts up the wall. Political journalists’ tendency to reduce any policy issue … Continue reading

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