To what cannot be any great surprise to anyone living / visiting Toronto, it did not not make this list of 100 most-walkable cities.
As a sidebar to this, while any number of 'world-class' cities (of which Toronto keeps insisting it is) and others create permanent pedestrianized city cores and neighbourhoods, Toronto has a few councillors gnashing their teeth over an upcoming closing of two short blocks to traffic over two months this summer.

#toronto #Canada #walkablecities2026 #walkablecities #pedestrians

https://blog.guruwalk.com/top-100-walking-cities-2026-en/

The one reason Americans can’t build quaint, walk-up apartments like they have in Europe

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/why-americans-cant-have-quaint-walkup-apartment-ex1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-americans-cant-have-quaint-walkup-apartment-ex1

Streetscapes has a new video out on how The Dutch city of Groningen successfully transformed its downtown from a car-dominated landscape into a thriving, pedestrian-friendly space by implementing a radical 1977 traffic circulation plan that restricted through-traffic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgKokpZMFnU

#urbanism #urbanplanning #Groningen #WalkableCities #SustainableTransport

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@showuptoronto/116426034360977115

I didn't know there's a Strong Towns Toronto group! Very cool.

Advocating for safe streets, incremental development, and an alternative to Ontario's suburban experiment.

https://strongtownstoronto.ca/

#Toronto #StrongTowns #StrongTownsToronto #Urbanism #WalkableCities #Housing #Transit