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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • 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...

  • Spacing on TV: Copenhagen and sharing the road

    Spacing publisher Matt Blackett talked to copenhagenize.com‘s Colville Andersen while visiting Copenhagen last week. Matt talks about the Danish...

  • Event Guide: Danish urbanist Jan Gehl coming to Toronto

    Danish architect Jan Gehl is one of the world’s foremost experts on transforming public spaces and creating walking-friendly environments. He led...

  • French fun with protests

    The French are renowned or notorious, depending on one’s point of view, for their public protests, getting huge numbers of people out on the street...

  • City Clerk official live blog of City Council meeting

    The city clerk is publishing a live blog of the decisions and votes of City Council’s current meeting. It’s remarkably useful — you can...

  • Event Guide: Jane’s Walk – “You’ve got to get out and walk”

    This weekend, everyone should be out walking. The annual Jane’s Walk takes place this Saturday and Sunday (May 2 and 3), and there are over 100...

  • Cherry blossoms blooming

    The cherry blossoms are in bloom at the University of Toronto (s-w corner of Robarts Library, corner of Harbord and Huron). They’re lovely, worth...

  • The curious case of Jarvis Street

    As Shawn Micallef wrote earlier this month, Jarvis Street has been much abused over the years. It was once one of Toronto’s most elegant streets...