Research
30 January 2020
How to Reduce Bird Strikes on High-Rises?
In cities across North America, collisions with glass buildings result in up to one billion bird deaths each year. In New York City alone, it’s...
28 October 2019
The Future of Sustainable Cities and How Tall Building Urbanism has Evolved
In the past 50 years, tall buildings and their relationship to streets and open spaces has evolved through various scales and typologies. As place-makers, how...
31 January 2019
Low-Rise to High Density in 15 Years: Inversion and the Toronto Exurb
Toronto’s most significant urbanization occurred in the automobile era, with a typical downtown business core and periphery of low-rise bedroom communities. But population growth, greenbelts,...
05 February 2018
Helping Cities Plan High-Rise Growth
Two studies, both completed for the City of Toronto, are focused on helping cities navigate the issues associated with high-rise growth. The first, the Downtown...
17 October 2016
One Yonge: A Case Study for Complete Vertical Communities
The City of Toronto is experiencing rapid growth, with the second largest concentration of high-rise buildings under construction in North America, surpassing Chicago and coming...
17 October 2016
The Space Between: Urban Spaces Surrounding Tall Buildings
This paper is intended to introduce the upcoming CTBUH technical guide titled “The Space Between,” which investigates the importance of publicly accessible spaces surrounding tall...
16 October 2016
Debating Tall: Regional Governments for Megacities?
The 2016 CTBUH Conference, “Cities to Megacities,” explores the phenomenon of already large cities merging together to form megacities, in parallel with many cities and...
26 October 2015
A Tale of Towers and Cities: A Contextual Approach to Vertical Urbanism
While the ever increasing global interchange of capitals and ideas have created immense opportunities and growth in cities around the world, the physical manifestation of...
26 October 2015
The Network of Urban Spaces Surrounding Tall Buildings
This paper investigates the Network of Urban Spaces Surrounding Tall Buildings, the Tall Building as Place Makers how Tall Buildings meet the street. As contributing...
24 August 2015
World’s Highest Observation Decks
Perhaps no element of a tall building is more closely related to the pure pleasure of standing high in the sky and taking in the...
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