Author: Murtaza

More than 10 million trips are made by public transit in New York City every day, as workers flock in to Manhattan’s office towers from…

View More From downtown to ghost town: How the pandemic is upending the economics of the urban core

Elevators are the unsung heroes of modern urbanism, without which tall and slender buildings would not have been built. So critical are elevators to a…

View More We are all about to realize how much we took elevators for granted

As Canada plans to relax restrictions on movements and gatherings, businesses have started to prepare for a staged reopening. For those who work in office…

View More Office towers face tall order to be as productive as before the pandemic

As Canada slowly reopens the economy and facilitates people’s interaction with friends and family, it has at least two distinct paths or strategies to guide…

View More Murtaza Haider speaks with Steve Paikin (TVO) to discuss transport infrastructure alternatives

New Report Release, May 27, 2020. This report analyzes the prevalence of work from home (telework) and its impact on transportation and real estate in…

View More Telework during COVID-19 lockdown in Canada

Are high-density communities more vulnerable to the spread of infectious diseases? This brief report does not attempt to settle the density-disease debate. Instead, it attempts…

View More The density-disease debate