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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • “Building Sustainability” lecture series

    A new free lecture and discussion series on “Building Sustainability” is being inaugurated this month by the organization Architecture for...

  • Greening parking lots

    Surface parking lots are possibly the most problematic use of space in a city — their vast impervious surfaces create runoffs of polluted water...

  • New stadium, new space

    The University of Toronto’s new, very simple Varsity Stadium at Bloor W. and Bedford has been criticized for not contributing to this rapidly...

  • “Steps Towards a Walkable City” — public consultation

    The City of Toronto launched a discussion document called “Steps Towards a Walkable City,” without much fanfare, at the beginning of October...

  • Walking-related events next week

    Here are a couple of walking-related events taking place next week: Walk this Way “Walk this Way” is an exhibit at the Design Exchange that...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...