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LORINC: Toronto becomes RogersTown
Why the consolidation and integration of Toronto's sports teams, venues, and media platforms feels so incredibly wrong
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Book Review – Black Public Joy: No Permit or Permission Required
Author: Jay Pitter (Penguin Random House, 2026) What is public space for? Most planners would answer with some combination of safety, accessibility...
By Erick Villagomez -
If We Have a Housing Shortage, Why Are We Buying Empty Condos?
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier David Eby recently announced a plan to purchase vacant condominium units and convert them into affordable housing...
By Erick Villagomez -
Porch Perspectives
Perry Walker discusses his documentary film project “From Where I’m Sitting"
By Kaede Ashizawa -
OP-ED: The value of street furniture in Toronto
Jessie Ye and the Toronto Public Space Committee argue for better street furniture as the current contract expires
By Jessie Ye -
Brad Bradford’s name blame game
The mayoral candidate's troubling wedge issue connects race, open drug use, and urban neglect
By John Lorinc -
UCS #105: Timing is Everything!
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Critics...
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Book Review: Louis Kahn – The Importance of a Drawing
“Although this book includes works from all phases of Kahn’s career, it is neither a “complete works” nor a monographic survey. To...
By Sean Ruthen -
The City and its Futures
We have plans for the future, but not always a path to get there. There are quick gains we could do today, but not always a vision to guide them. Somewhere between the long horizon and today's next step, the city gets shaped.
By Yuval Fogelson -
The photographic techniques of Toronto’s City Photographers
Exploring another side of the "roadway" archives of Toronto's official photographers, Arthur Goss and Howard MacDonald
By Peter MacCallum -
UCS #104: The Tourist Experience
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: ‘Utter...
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate -
The City in the Present
One place, one time. A queue curving around the block for a croissant that went viral, a transit card mapping the pulse of a city in motion, a sun cutting a corridor of light down 42nd Street once a year. Physically present in a city.
By Yuval Fogelson
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered