Yinnon G
@yinnong.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Master of Urban Innovation program, IMI, UTM
Thoughts on planning and housing in Toronto
But also random Hebrew ramblings because in my mind this is 2009 Twitter
Thoughts on planning and housing in Toronto
But also random Hebrew ramblings because in my mind this is 2009 Twitter
Adding Mike Bird's The Land Trap to my reading list after reading this thorough and fascinating summary. One paragraph about China got me thinking of another country with somewhat parallel property/productivity problems
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Adding Mike Bird's The Land Trap to my reading list after reading this thorough and fascinating summary. One paragraph about China got me thinking of another country with somewhat parallel property/productivity problems
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...
TDSB truck fully blocking the footpath to school on a muddy mornin. It’s an epidemic.
October 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
TDSB truck fully blocking the footpath to school on a muddy mornin. It’s an epidemic.
A lot of curious word choices in @theglobeandmail.com's real estate newsletter.
"preconstruction market worked amazingly well" - for whom? Are we happy with the products delivered?
The challenge today is with "the cost of the units" - who inflated their cost [chasing goose meme]?!
"preconstruction market worked amazingly well" - for whom? Are we happy with the products delivered?
The challenge today is with "the cost of the units" - who inflated their cost [chasing goose meme]?!
September 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A lot of curious word choices in @theglobeandmail.com's real estate newsletter.
"preconstruction market worked amazingly well" - for whom? Are we happy with the products delivered?
The challenge today is with "the cost of the units" - who inflated their cost [chasing goose meme]?!
"preconstruction market worked amazingly well" - for whom? Are we happy with the products delivered?
The challenge today is with "the cost of the units" - who inflated their cost [chasing goose meme]?!
Is this Wirecutter or the Onion
September 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Is this Wirecutter or the Onion
Found at 4yo’s school, should have taken them with me
September 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Found at 4yo’s school, should have taken them with me
Me reading the Airbnb cottage instructions
August 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Me reading the Airbnb cottage instructions
Did anyone else notice when our monopolistic overlords have switched from “we sell Canadian!” To “we offer one shelf of Canadian goods and they cost one dollar extra”?
August 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Did anyone else notice when our monopolistic overlords have switched from “we sell Canadian!” To “we offer one shelf of Canadian goods and they cost one dollar extra”?
Happy centennial to this pretty building
July 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happy centennial to this pretty building
You can smell the forest fire in the air
July 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You can smell the forest fire in the air
Publication alert!
New book chapter on the privatization of urban planning, where we re-read the familiar narrative of neoliberalization as the modernist technocratic state being challenged by market-based & tech-based logics. It's a fun read I promise!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
New book chapter on the privatization of urban planning, where we re-read the familiar narrative of neoliberalization as the modernist technocratic state being challenged by market-based & tech-based logics. It's a fun read I promise!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
June 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Publication alert!
New book chapter on the privatization of urban planning, where we re-read the familiar narrative of neoliberalization as the modernist technocratic state being challenged by market-based & tech-based logics. It's a fun read I promise!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
New book chapter on the privatization of urban planning, where we re-read the familiar narrative of neoliberalization as the modernist technocratic state being challenged by market-based & tech-based logics. It's a fun read I promise!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
I use this chart by @jamaps.bsky.social in all of my housing lectures
June 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I use this chart by @jamaps.bsky.social in all of my housing lectures
Nice day on the Gardiner/DVP. For a minute there, with the streetcar gliding above, it was a truly multimodal city
June 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Nice day on the Gardiner/DVP. For a minute there, with the streetcar gliding above, it was a truly multimodal city
Doors Open events were impossible to get into, so we went for a hidden gems/liminal spaces walk instead
May 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Doors Open events were impossible to get into, so we went for a hidden gems/liminal spaces walk instead
Apparently McSweeney's has an "urban planning" tag and I'm living for it www.mcsweeneys.net/tags/urban-p...
May 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Apparently McSweeney's has an "urban planning" tag and I'm living for it www.mcsweeneys.net/tags/urban-p...
Metrolinx IG page is the comedy account you’ve been craving
May 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Metrolinx IG page is the comedy account you’ve been craving
TIL that Google Map's 3D imaging captures cranes. Here's an example from the Well and King projects in Downtown Toronto
April 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
TIL that Google Map's 3D imaging captures cranes. Here's an example from the Well and King projects in Downtown Toronto
RIP Moti Golani, historian of the British Mandate and early Israel. His book, Wars Don’t Just Happen, shaped my political world when I was 18 and I still occasionally think of it. Sad premature death.
April 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
RIP Moti Golani, historian of the British Mandate and early Israel. His book, Wars Don’t Just Happen, shaped my political world when I was 18 and I still occasionally think of it. Sad premature death.
Highlight of the week was this rezoning application ticket booth. True locally sourced construction
April 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Highlight of the week was this rezoning application ticket booth. True locally sourced construction
Scenes of a blooming Vancouver
April 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Scenes of a blooming Vancouver
Beth Gibbons audience is as intense as you’d expect
April 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Beth Gibbons audience is as intense as you’d expect
I did not have Doug Ford getting headlines on Haaretz in my 2025 bingo
March 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I did not have Doug Ford getting headlines on Haaretz in my 2025 bingo
Congratulations to our new PM, Mark "Duck" Carney
March 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Congratulations to our new PM, Mark "Duck" Carney
Can’t catch a frickin break
February 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Can’t catch a frickin break