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Located at 186 Jarvis St., the structure (named HOEM) will include 593 rooms on 30 floors, with space available to first- and upper-year students. The residence offers fully furnished suites (with kitchen, living room, and single bedrooms), plus amenities throughout, including study rooms, studio space, gym facilities, and a yoga studio.

Alumni save 30 per cent on a monthly gym membership, which includes all group fitness classes.

“We’re really excited to add not just space, but great space,” said Ian Crookshank, director of housing and residence life. “Many first-year students are living off-campus, so this is a great chance for more students to live on-campus with the great supports that we provide, in a state-of-theart building.”

The building is the result of a public-private partnership between Ryerson and the Canadian Student Communities Inc., who have covered all construction/development costs. HOEM will increase available residential space at the university by over 30 per cent.

Students can now apply for living space at the new residence for the 2018/19 school year.

URBAN ISSUES

Tech-driven neighbourhood project draws criticism

Technology is meant to make our lives easier. But at what cost? The New York Times profiled Toronto’s proposed waterfront redevelopment by Alphabet, a parent company of Google. Known as Quayside, 12 acres of land between east Bayfront and Port Lands, it’s being planned as a tech-driven neighbourhood that collects data on everyone who works, lives or passes through. Sensors will collect information on noise, air pollution, commuter and pedestrian traffic – all in an effort to build a city that’s mixed-use, sustainable, affordable and people-centred. Pamela Robinson, urban and regional planning professor, says there’s potential for the data to exclude some citizens. “The data might be used to limit or discourage the otherwise legal use of public spaces by homeless people, teenagers or other groups. We don’t want to create what’s effectively a gated community,” she said.

—Antoinette Mercurio