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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

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  1. It’s my understanding that in an effort to find some use for the tonnes of paper consumed in planning documents for projects that are never implemented, the mayor’s plan to make high rise apartment towers more energy efficient will use planning documents as their primary means of insulation. The first building will stuffed entirely with copies of the Bike Plan, while documents produced by Metrolinx and Waterfront Toronto will be the source of this insulation infinitely into the future.

  2. EAs… staff reports imagine the opportunity!

  3. Only in Ontario do you create an agency, to develop a massively huge and expensive project, that 7 agencies with no money and little resources will need to implement. In 1921 the city merged a group of transit agencies together to make the TTC which served the whole city. This was repeated after Metro was formed in 1954. Maybe we need to do this again, and merge the transit agencies of the GTA together into one large agency, that can look after the whole region.

  4. It would be nice to see the issue of arts funding get more play on this site. As urban centres are also centres of culture and many artists choose to live in cities, the issues of arts and urbanism are tightly linked. We all suffer from the same sense of political isolation.

    Toronto tries so hard to celebrate, or be seen to celebrate, culture. A new Canadian play may not be as interesting as a new style bus shelter or mythical transit development to visitors of this site but it’s vital to the economic and social life of the city and with a hell of a fight on our (artists) hands, we could use your support.

  5. SATURDAY NIGHT LOVE TALK SHOW featuring Federal Election Issues!

    Toronto Centre Riding – 606 Yonge Street, Just North of Wellesley
    Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, then Saturday, October 4th, 2008
    Time: 7:30pm – 10:00pm

    SATURDAY NIGHT LOVE TALK SHOW:

    Federal Election Issues – which issues are most important to you?

    This talk show on Saturday, September 27th is a warm-up for our Federal Election Candidates show next week, Saturday, October 4th, to which we are inviting each of the four leading candidates running in the federal election in the riding of Toronto Centre (where Saturday Night Love takes place). So far two of the four leading Toronto Centre candidates have confirmed that they will attend on Oct.4th to speak to our voters, and a third campaign has confirmed they will send the candidate or a substitute.

    Be part of our audience for free as the cover charge is buying dinner from the restaurant below our event!

    Details about this week’s Saturday Night Love including the talent and teaching portion:
    http://www.torontopoets.com/poetry/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=32&day=2008-9-27

    Photos of previous Saturday Night Love shows: http://www.torontopoets.com/pictures/

    Each Show is Located At: Ritz Caribbean Restaurant, 3rd Floor
    Street: 606 Yonge Street, Just North of Wellesley subway station
    City: Toronto
    Map: http://maps.yahoo.com/?ard=1&q1=606+…oronto%2C%20ON

    For more information contact:

    Jason Kinte
    President, Toronto Poets
    http://www.torontopoets.com
    http://www.increasethepeacealliance.org/events.html
    416-737-0843
    jasonkinte@gmail.com

  6. Durham Region says it feels shortchanged, but the Durham Region doesn’t want — and isn’t very compatible with — transit.

    The existing transit in most of Durham is shockingly poor and there are many NIMBYs like the one recently featured who tried to get a bus re-routed because she didn’t like it passing her house once every half hour.

    Transit is seem as social welfare for those too poor to afford cars, and anyone in Durham who arrives at the office by bus will be looked down on.

    As well, unless the local politicians get serious about changing development patterns, the region will continue to see massive new subdivisions designed with road layouts that continue to make effective transit impossible.