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By Dylan Reid

  • Copenhagen: N-55 “Spaceframe”

    The Danes are famed for their design, and here’s an interesting example. It’s a floating living space in Copenhagen created by an art/design...

  • Reading List: City Comforts, by David Sucher

    David Sucher’s City Comforts is a little gem of a book. First published in 1995, it’s a collection of the small details that make urban spaces...

  • Copenhagen: Quickie street transformation

    While I was in Copenhagen earlier this summer, I observed an interesting recent street transformation on Norrebrogade, one of the main roads leading out...

  • Dept. of Funny Signs: Signspotting exhibition, Copenhagen

    Imagine my delight when, wandering around Copenhagen on vacation, I came across an entire exhibit of funny signs in one of the main squares. The...

  • Copenhagen: transit platform and bike lane

    One of the tricky aspects of the planned pedestrian and transit improvements to Roncesvalles is the TTC’s desire to put transit-boarding platforms...

  • Walking Woman

    I just got back from a trip to Europe, where I saw the first example I’ve seen of a walking-woman signal, in the Dutch town of Haarlem (I’ve...

  • Watch the Fourth Plinth

    A couple of months ago I wrote about the upcoming “One and Other” project for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, England. The...

  • All aboard the Committee of Adjustment

    The City of Toronto Committee of Adjustment is one of those obscure appointed boards that actually has a big impact on the city. It decides whether...

  • Detroit: Street Infrastructure

    Detroit has some nice street elements and infrastructure left over from its glory days, much of it worn by time, and also little pockets of innovative new...

  • Detroit: Graffiti

    Detroit must be some kind of graffiti artist heaven — there are almost endless amounts of deserted, empty walls across the city in neglected streets...

  • Dept. of Funny Signs: Lovable

    This ghost sign is one of my favourites of all time. It’s on the east side of a building near the south-east corner of Adelaide and Portland —...

  • A day at Works Committee

    It’s been a while since I sat in on the City of Toronto Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, but I went there last Tuesday to depute in favour...