By Matthew Blackett
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The Artful Target: Q&A with Richard Florida
So, are you tired of hearing about Richard Florida yet? You wouldn't be the first in Toronto to feel that way about the most celebrated urbanist since...
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Culture among street youth
Rudy Ruttimann was recently awarded a Vital People grant from the Toronto Community Foundation for her work with Sketch, where she is the executive...
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Tombstones amongst towers
At one of Toronto's busiest intersections sits a giant, mid-19th-century cemetery that is almost completely hidden from sight. To have never heard of...
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Toronto’s forgotten cinemas
Since the first "theatorium" was established in 1906 — a Yonge Street storefront packed with 150 borrowed kitchen chairs —...
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Watershed signs: A city of streams
It is an indisputable fact that in most locations throughout Toronto, a person is never more than 15 walking minutes from a river or tributary. All that...
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The island of Markland Woods
There are islands in Toronto that aren't surrounded by water. Instead they're communities that are isolated in some way from the rest of the city...
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Not your father’s towers in the park
From a distance — especially from the east, across the Don Valley — St. Jamestown looks like one of those stylized cityscape illustrations...
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Atom Egoyan’s cinematic city
Atom Egoyan‘s new film, Chloe, is a remarkable achievement in Toronto’s sad sack history of being Hollywood North, the place that doubles for...
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History beneath our seats
As the TTC prepares to embark upon its plans to tunnel below the city late in 2010, building badly-needed new subway lines as part of the Toronto-York...
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A regal view
Toronto is a flat city. Yes, we have our ravines and valleys, but it's hard to find a good view of the city (other than from a building) that...