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By Dylan Reid

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...