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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • 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...

  • The Igor effect

    A couple of summers ago, I did a post about a bike being stolen from in front of the police HQ. I said that the police ought to make more effort about...

  • Event Guide: What’s New in New York?

    WHAT: “What’s New in New York?”: An evening of film and discussion featuring Transportation Alternatives‘ Noah Budnick. Films by...

  • Fringe Benefits continued: How should “Avenues” develop?

    The way the new exhibition Fringe Benefits (reviewed earlier) presented the dynamics of ethnic communities in the suburbs helped to crystallize some...

  • Fringe Benefits continued: “Informal Urbanism”

    A key theme of the new exhibition Fringe Benefits (reviewed yesterday) that I found very interesting was the idea of “informal urbanism”...

  • Exhibition Review: Fringe Benefits

    The attention of Toronto’s “urbanist” community (myself included) tends to focus on the central part of the city, the old City of...