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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • Pedestrian-Friendly Gould Street Design Competition

    In conjunction with the international Walk21 conference being hosted by the City of Toronto in early October, Ryerson University is launching an...

  • Walking Life: Call for Submissions

    Walking Life will be a month-long exhibit showcasing work created both by artists and community members that celebrates the experience of walking. The...

  • First Pedestrian Sunday outside Kensington Market

    Pedestrian Sundays are expanding this weekend. The first “Pedestrian Sunday” to take place outside Kensington Market is happening this Sunday...

  • Walking consultation #2

    The City of Toronto is holding its second public consultation meeting to get citizen input into its development of a Walking Strategy for the city of...

  • Montreal notes

    Back in May, Spacing publisher Matt Blackett and myself drove up to Montreal for a few days to work on a Spacing project (details to come). While we were...

  • Supreme Court establishes right to open city governments

    London, Ontario city hall  In a pleasing precedent, the Supreme Court of Canada last week ruled unanimously that all Ontarians have a right to observe...

  • Open Cities Toronto 2007

    Here’s a stimulating event for the weekend: Open Cities Toronto 2007 is a weekend-long web of conversation and celebration that asks: how do we...

  • Looking at cities

    Someone recently suggested I look at the 1985 book Looking at Cities by Allan B. Jacobs, a great California urbanist who did a lot of work on how to make...

  • Walking to transit in Brazil

    Most people who take transit walk to their transit stop. You would think that transit companies would therefore be very conscious of pedestrian issues...

  • Tuesday Street Picnic

    Streets are for People is taking advantage of a unique opportunity — the closure of stretches of Dundas West for streetcar track upgrading —...

  • Walking from Pearson Airport

    At the end of last year, Shawn Micallef posted about English author Will Self’s walk from JFK airport in New York into Manhattan. A surprising...

  • Reporting on city hall … from a distance

    An online news service in Pasadena, California, has worked out a new way to cover the deadly dull minutiae of city hall business — they have...