By Dylan Reid
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Urban health research
The Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI) in Toronto facilitates research that examines how the social and physical conditions in cities affect the...
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Civic improvements
CBC’s Metro Morning show this morning features an interview with Toronto’s chief planner, Ted Tyndorf, (RealPlayer streaming audio, 4:47...
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ROM seeks free ride
When buildings intrude beyond their private property into public space, they have to pay a small rental fee to the City for that space. The Royal Ontario...
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Where would you meet in Toronto?
I’m reading a very interesting book called The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki. The author describes a fascinating experiment by a social...
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Perverse Psychogeography?
“Psychogeography” seems to be generally considered a relatively benign observational activity — a random drifting through the city to...
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Chainlink Beautiful?
The new “Bennet Gates” at the south end of Philosopher’s Walk on the University of Toronto campus recently won a “Clean and...
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News of the World
Last week, Spacing‘s Dale Duncan wrote an article in Eye Magazine about five great public space ideas from other cities. She cited an initiative in...
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Lecture on “The New Landscape”
Christopher Hume profiles local landscape architect Janet Rosenberg in the Star today. She says interesting things about the difficulty of creating...
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Making Toronto’s streets
Streets are at the heart of a city. They take up a quarter of all land in the city. They should be the places where people gather and experience urban...
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Crossing anywhere on St. George
The Star‘s “Fixer” had an interesting story recently about curb cuts along St. George St. in the University of Toronto campus. During...
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Do lazy people move to the suburbs?
Researchers have established in recent years that there is a correlation between obesity and sprawl — people in low-density suburbs, who have to...
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Active Transportation Press Conference
A week ago, the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT) (note – I’m one of the organizers) held a press conference to highlight the...