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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • Event Guide: Bikes as a public good

    On Thursday, September 18th, the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation, the Clean Air Partnership and the Community Bicycle Network have organized a...

  • Gallery Guide: “The street belongs to all of us”

    “The street belongs to all of us” is an exhibition currently on display at the Eric Arthur Gallery in the University of Toronto Faculty of...

  • Dept. of Funny Signs: the 11th commandement

    At a church parking lot at Dupont and Avenue Road. It always cracks me up.

  • A pedestrian lobster trap

    A massive new residential development is taking shape in the railway lands on the west side of Spadina, just north of Lake Shore Boulevard and the...

  • Dept. of Funny Signs: Personal Construction

    A personal construction zone at Wellington and Bay.

  • One giant diagonal step for pedestrians

    Starting on Thursday, pedestrians will be able to cross the intersection of Yonge and Dundas diagonally, without worrying about cars. The City is ready to...

  • Event Guide: Talk on sustainable homes and communities

    Architecture for Humanity Toronto is holding another in its series of “Building Sustainability” lectures, on Monday: Going Green: Designing...

  • Getting to Ireland Park

    Ireland Park is a lovely, moving park recently created at the foot of Bathurst Street, at the south base of the Malting Silo buildings near the ferry to...

  • Igor’s bikes petition

    Last week I wrote about a good idea making the rounds: to give the thousands of bikes recovered from Igor Kenk’s storehouses to people in need. But...

  • What should be done with Igor’s bikes?

    A few days ago, someone called Chad Nuttall emailed me with a good idea (I assume he contacted me because of my post about Igor Kenk’s stolen...

  • Public Toilets

    I was very grateful to find this automated toilet when I was wandering around Paris in June. As they say, when you got to go … Public toilets are...

  • Berlin: Ampelmann

    I recently went on a trip to Paris and Berlin, and I’m going to post a few impressions and photos over the coming weeks. One of the first things...