On a good day, Katherine Anthony says she can get downstairs "fairly quickly" from her rental unit on the 45th floor of a downtown Toronto high-rise. But the problem, she adds, is those good days are ...

Densely built, low-rise environments are more space and carbon efficient, while high-rise buildings have a drastically higher carbon impact. More than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in ...

Mississauga's city council yesterday approved a massive high-rise development project that will eventually house 12,300 residents in 30 buildings that would reach as high as 50 storeys, making them ...

Aniseh Sharifi spent the better part of the past six years trying to convince an unyielding condo board they should invest in charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. “A big reason for moving ...

Stakeholders are advocating high-rise construction as a sustainable solution to upgrade slums without displacing residents. An analyst working on housing affordability in the US, Joseph Ogunlade, ...

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...