Urban Design

LORINC: The case for re-branding urban shade for a world on fire

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Given the increasingly dire news about climate change, including the release yesterday of the IPCC latest report on accelerating... Read More

Urban Design

Fixing Sam’s Road: The urban design disaster of Avenue Road

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Avenue Road is the enduring legacy of Sam Cass. Very enduring. Cass was the traffic engineer hired by the new Metro Toronto government... Read More

Community

Searching for Black history in Niagara-on-the-Lake

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We did the Black thing as we passed each other on the trail — nods of mutual recognition, a celebration that we are still here. I had... Read More

Politics

LORINC: City Council’s green-washing game

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At its meeting earlier this month, Toronto city council endorsed two policies — one substantive, the other symbolic — to add further... Read More

Neighbourhoods

Ali’s Roti in Parkdale turns 45

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The first time I walked into Ali’s Roti in Parkdale, owner Shiraz Aligour, whom I had never before met, took one look at me and asked... Read More

Culture

Q&A with Umbereen Inayet: How to decolonize a city’s museums

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Toronto’s history museums are in the midst of a transformation. The City’s Awakenings project, lead by Artistic Producer Umbereen... Read More

Politics

LORINC: The failing of governance of Toronto

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The debacle that was last week’s so-called debate over multi-tenant housing, which ended in a stalemate, was quite plainly evidence of... Read More

Urban Design

The Un-Avenues: Integrating new intensity for housing, open spaces, and streets

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model... Read More

Bikes

2021 Toronto Bike Plan Update: Does it Build Back Better?

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The City of Toronto is currently working on the 2021 – 2023 Cycling Implementation Plan, which will come to the Infrastructure and... Read More

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