New details on Toronto neighborhood?s streetscape, affordable housing, and privacy protection Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation unit of Alphabet, Google?s parent company, will present a new plan for Quayside, its pioneering smart city development on Toronto?s east waterfront, further demonstrating how it aims to improve how cities operate with a bottom-up reimagining of tech?s place in urban living.
Dogged by privacy issues earlier this year, the updated plan enshrines the idea of a Civic Data Trust for all urban data, guaranteeing that ?no one has a right to own information collected from Quayside including Sidewalk Labs.? It also provides more details on the systems and structures that will form the backbone of the neighborhood, which will fill in an 800-acre tract on Lake Ontario. ?Torontonians want more affordable housing, faster ways to get around the city, safer streets for pedestrians and cyclists, [and] a cleaner and healthier environment,? said Jesse Shapins, Sidewalk Labs?s director of public realm, in a statement released yesterday. ?That?s what we are aiming to do by creating this new neighbourhood. This draft site plan released today demonstrates what we are envisioning for Quayside and how we aim to address these critical challenges facing Toronto.?

Michael Green Architects for Sidewalk Labs
The new plans call for the creation of the largest collection of mass timber structures in the world.

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