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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Matthew Blackett

  • Playing in public space

    It’s a late afternoon in early autumn at Christie Pits: it’s the weekend and the air is comfortable, though the sun is slouching towards the...

  • Working in public space

    I have a day job. I have my own little spot in the corner of the office on the fifth floor of a building, and I have my own desk. If I was the sort of...

  • The city as a playground

    In April 2004, students in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications program converted a large chunk of Greenwich Village into a game...

  • Navigate the streets playfully

  • Young revolutionaries

    Young revolutionariesI was a 10-year-old...

  • On a wing and a prayer

    Dead birds: four. Hurt birds: one. Today is a good day for Michael Mesure. It’s 7 a.m. on a clear September morning and Mesure is patrolling...

  • The sidewalk blues

    Walk down any main street in Toronto and you’re bound to encounter at least a couple of people trying to entertain the pedestrians scurrying past...

  • Saving our souls on the sidewalk

    As a lifelong atheist, it came as quite a shock when I witnessed what appeared to be the Resurrection of Christ a few years back. Yet there he was, clad...