The provocation of this special issue is that contemporary capitalism is different. It is
increasingly dominated by rentiership rather than entrepreneurship: that is, the extraction of …

Toronto has for 70 years been one of the fastest growing city-regions in North America, and
over the last two decades has seen booming high-rise intensification. A distinctive land …

The state of the literature on density is complicated. This review considers what is known
and still disputed about density, focusing on thematic evidence of density's relationship to (a) …

ABSTRACT Land Value Capture (LVC) in the Global South has long been a subject of long-
standing debate, primarily driven by the need to address uneven urbanization and finance …

The emerging objective to combat urban sprawl has put densification on the political
agenda. Simultaneously, the complexity of planning within the existing built environment …

Problem, research strategy, and findings Public and nonprofit agencies struggle to compete
for space in cities as development pressures and unaffordability intensify. We have identified …

This paper explores Toronto's urban PATH, a 30 km network of underground pedestrian
tunnels and elevated walkways that connect shopping areas, residential towers, mass transit …

Housing has become increasingly unaffordable, particularly in amenity-rich and transit-
accessible areas. In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis to investigate the …

This paper draws on Henri Lefebvre's conception of abstract space to analyze how socio-
territorial relations between a variety of public and private actors shape the transformation of …

This dissertation is a case-study of a public housing district in North York, Toronto known as
Lawrence Heights, a so-called “priority neighborhood” undergoing the largest “urban …