Modernizing Urban and Community Planning with Geospatial Insights
An e-book about modernizing urban and Community planning with geospatial insights. A strategic guide for municipal leaders across Canada.
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Ratio.City
Browse articles, case studies, videos, and tools focused on Ratio.City.
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Friction to Feasibility: How Ratio.City Can Unlock Missing Middle Housing
At Ratio.City, we saw the shift, and we responded. We conducted interviews across the GTA navigating the complexity of missing middle development.
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Using Toronto's Existing Housing Stock to Help Solve the Housing Crisis
In the race to build more housing stock, are we missing out on units? Could Toronto’s existing housing stock to help solve the housing crisis?
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From Open Data to Open Infrastructure: What Municipalities Need to Get Right
Open data is not enough: how weak data limits advanced tools, and what municipalities need to get right next to make data truly work for planning.
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How MUCP Students Helped Reimagine Long-Term Care in Toronto’s Urban Core
How Toronto students used policy analysis and Ratio.City to rethink long-term care in dense urban environments.
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Finding Density with Ratio.City
Maximize urban density with Ratio.City. Analyze policies to find hidden development opportunities and de-risk projects in London, Ontario.
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Making Open Data Work for Planners: Lessons from Inside Ratio.City
Open datasets help planners visualize growth, improve transparency and streamline work in Ratio.City environment.
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Building trust in a digital world: why security matters at Esri Canada
With ISO-certified information security, cloud protection and privacy systems and practices, you can rely on our solutions.
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Creating CommUNITY: Calculating Chance Encounters using Tech
Discover how placemaking and technology combine to foster chance encounters and build vibrant, inclusive communities.
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The Power of Pivoting – A Chat with Aaron Yick of BlackTusk Group
How a Toronto-based real estate firm uses tech to assess development sites faster and make smarter, high-density investment decisions.
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Urban Planning Needs a Digital Wake-Up Call
Canada’s housing crisis needs modern solutions. Urban planning must go digital—because PDFs, binders, and CD-ROMs just aren’t cutting it.
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Accelerating housing approvals in Canada: the vision behind Ratio.City
Discover how Ratio.City is streamlining Canada's housing development by simplifying site analysis, data access, and collaboration across the planning ecosystem. They explain why
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A Delicate Balancing Act – AI’s Impact on the Urban Planning Industry
Explore how AI is transforming urban planning—boosting efficiency while raising concerns about data privacy, bias, and accuracy.
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Ratio.City to scale housing tools across Canada after CMHC selection
$1 million in funding will support access to shared, curated planning data for housing developers and municipalities nationwide
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Good Data Makes Good Cities
Cities are built in collaboration between the housing and public sectors. But more work needs to be done to improve access to information.
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