Category: social equity

  • Line 6 is Officially Open

    Yesterday, I went for a ride on the new Line 6 LRT. During the weeks leading up to the light rail line’s much-anticipated grand opening, there had been a lot of discussion among critics about its slow speed due to the lack of signal priority. Nonetheless, I decided to make my way up to Finch…

  • Seoul’s Last Shantytown

    Guryong Village is an informal settlement on private land located in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam District. For a while, I had been reading about it and its plans for redevelopment. I just couldn’t believe such a place could actually exist within a modern urban metropolis among neighborhoods known for plastic surgery, luxury retail, expensive real estate,…

  • The 15-Minute City Offers Freedom, Not Restriction

    There are obvious reasons we don’t take just anything on social media at face value. Otherwise, we’d believe COVID-19 was created in a lab, vaccines can give your child autism, and lots of other theories on an endless list of bullshit. Now these conspiracy theorists are trying to hijack a subject area near and dear…

  • Earlier this week, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing passed the More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022, as a measure to increase the supply of affordable housing quickly by removing red tape, streamlining the development approval process and reducing development costs. Anyone who’s been following local politics during the recent municipal elections is probably…