Toronto is a major city in Canada that displays many of the characteristics of global cities. In a context where many large cities around the world are experiencing affordable housing scarcity, this thesis develops a new methodology—using Toronto as a case study—for architecture to insert itself in dialogue with extra-disciplinary forces shaping cities such as policy and zoning. It begins from the scale of the city through the tools of zoning, zooms in to the scale of the neighborhood, and finally, to the scale of the block, the typology, and architecture.