Book Review: On the Map

On The Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks Author: Simon Garfield, (Gotham Books 2013) Maps show us where... Read More

Ottawa

‘The Human Scale’: We’re all human, so why aren’t we building cities for people?

November 14th marked the second event in the 2013-2014 Urban Forum calendar, with a public screening of the documentary, The Human... Read More

Two weeks ago I wrote my Toronto Star column on how Toronto was shaped by the railways (as is the case with many Canadian cities and... Read More

For a larger image, click here. In the sunshine summer of 2013, I was summoned by my professor and given an interesting task: to roam... Read More

Edmonton

When crossing this vast country, there is often the perception that the Canadian prairie landscape is rather homogenous and flat. Such... Read More

Toronto

Chicago is often referred to as Toronto’s closest sibling. Built in similar times, with similar sizes and populations, there are... Read More

Ottawa

Toronto has Ward’s Island, Vancouver’s got Granville, and Montreal has, well, the Island of Montreal. So it is about time that Ottawa... Read More

Introducing the BIG Map Blog. The curator (known only as the 59 kind) of the collection/blog, is an enthusiast of cartography and... Read More

A brilliant map created by Portland resident, Justin Palmer, shows the colour-coded ages of 544,033 buildings in the Portland metro... Read More

The Urban Observatory is a city comparison app that enables you to explore the living fabric of global cities by browsing a variety of... Read More