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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The route to cycling can be quick

    There was a lot of fascinating information at the “Traffic Tales” movie night put on by the Toronto Public Space Committee last night, but the...

  • Reverse Graffiti

    Reverse graffiti is a practice where the artist creates a design by cleaning grime selectively off a wall, so that the cleaned sections stand out. The...

  • Gentrify this

    There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years in Toronto about the gentrification of formerly “ethnic” and low-income neighbourhoods...

  • Traffic Tales movie night

    The Streets to Screens movie series will feature two movies about sustainable transportation on Thursday, October 26, at the Bloor Cinema at 7pm. The...

  • Star’s new transportation column

    The Toronto Star has a new transportation columnist, David Bruser, and in today’s column he asks readers to tell him about their problems with...

  • Project for Public Spaces presentation

    On Wednesday, October 25, 2006, Fred Kent, President of Project for Public Spaces, will be speaking in the Council Chamber of City Hall between 1:00 PM...

  • Walking Man vs. Raised Right Hand

    We don’t usually signal articles that aren’t available online, but I feel the need to make an exception for the delighful and informative...

  • Walking while black?

    [Edit – I received comments that my original version of this report included too much speculation. I have removed most of the speculation. Instead...