By Dylan Reid
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Public and private infrastructure in action (imagined and real)
The Twitterverse recently led me to an interesting blog post that pointed out how, in the Bourne movies, the Jason Bourne character “uses public...
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Event Guide: Walking Strategy Designer’s Forum
How can Toronto’s design community contribute to making Toronto a better city for walking? To help get the City’s new Walking Strategy off the...
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Informal infrastructure and haunted house in Scarborough
In late September, I had the privilege of sitting in on one of the walkability studies that are taking place in conjunction with the City’s Tower...
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The new zoning bylaw: a confusion of bases
1545 Eglinton Ave West by Kevin Steele A few weeks ago I wrote about the project to create a new comprehensive zoning bylaw for Toronto. In an effort to...
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Don’t park that scooter on the sidewalk
With the expansion of the use of scooters in the city (Vespa is the most famous brand), I noticed a lot more of these scooters parked on sidewalks this...
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Toronto’s new unified zoning bylaw project
I went to an open house at City Hall last night about Toronto’s new zoning bylaw project. It doesn’t sound all that exciting, and the event...
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Dept. of Funny Signs (and cool infrastructure): automated bollard in Delft
When I was travelling around the Netherlands this summer, I saw this nice example of a retractable traffic bollard in Delft that controls which motor...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...