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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • 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...

  • Crosswalk as pedestrian memorial

    We’ve just had our attention drawn to an ingenious project in Portugal to raise awareness of pedestrian safety. The zebra stripes of a pedestrian...

  • Billboard tax debate

    Public space activist Dave Meslin wrote an interesting article in NOW magazine this week about the issue of taxing advertising billboards. The article was...

  • A couple of pedestrian ideas

    There were a lot of good ideas floating around at the “Visions for a Walkable Toronto” workshop hosted by the City of Toronto and Spacing...

  • Walk to Work Day

    Today, April 26, 2007, has been declared the first “Walk to Work” day, at least in London, England. British pedestrian organization Living...

  • Visions for a Walkable Toronto — Workshop

    The City of Toronto, in partnership with Spacing magazine, is holding a public workshop on “Visions for a Walkable Toronto” on Wednesday...

  • London officials paint over famous Banksy mural

    Transit workers in London, England, have painted over a famous mural by the artist Banksy. The estimated value of the mural was over half a million...

  • How to cross railway tracks

    Pedestrian activist Roger Brook wrote an interesting article in NOW magazine a couple of weeks ago about pedestrian crossings over railway tracks...