By Dylan Reid
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Plans for Etobicoke’s city centre
Etobicoke Civic Centre The concepts for the creation of a new Etobicoke (well, now it’s called “West District”) city centre between...
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The origins of Toronto’s manhole covers
Manhole covers are perhaps the ultimate piece of urban infrastructure — specific to cities, they are the portals to a whole world of civic...
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This traffic signal is brought to you by …
It’s a disconcerting experience to find that an April Fool’s joke in fact has an element of reality to it. This spring, I posted a funny April...
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Human River walk this weekend
The Toronto Public Space Committee is holding its 3rd Annual Human River walk along Garrison Creek, Toronto’s biggest buried river, this Sunday...
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Sighting: automatic stop calls on a streetcar
Last night, as I came home on the Spadina streetcar, I enjoyed my first experience of automatic stop calls on a streetcar. Finally, after all these years...
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Can naked streets make pedestrians sexy?
The surprising media coverage of the Walk21 conference continued after it was over, with a series of wrap-up pieces over the weekend and in the weeklies...
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A good week for walking
The Walk21 conference last week got remarkable, and entirely unexpected, media coverage. In fact, I suspect pedestrian issues got more media coverage than...
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Walk21: Wayfinding
I have a particular interest in the idea of pedestrian maps, and co-created one for the now-finished Walking Life exhibition (I hope to post an electronic...
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Walk21: Public health and urban design
Today’s Walk21 post brings you some findings from a fascinating session on the relationship between public health and urban design as they affect...
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Walk21 reports: the business case for walking
There’s already been far more interesting stuff at the Walk21 conference than I can easily report, so I will just give a quick taste of some of the...
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October is Walking Month in Toronto. Really.
At a ceremony to open the Walk21 conference in Toronto on Monday night (Oct. 1), Mayor David Miller proclaimed October to be Walking Month under the...
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Walk21 appetizer
A quick reminder that there are several community events in the next couple of days related to the Walk21 conference starting this evening in Toronto. I...