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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • The Importance of Everyday Architecture

    I’m not always on exactly the same page as the Star‘s architecture/urban critic Christopher Hume when it comes to individual buildings, but I...

  • BBC Radio: “Making Cities Work”

    BBC World Service radio has an interesting series called “Making Cities Work“, available for listening in streaming or downloadable formats...

  • Public Space Events Galore

    This weekend seems to be one of the most intense festive periods of the year in Toronto’s public spaces. Big chunks of the downtown will be closed...

  • CP24 — Everywhere, even the sidewalk

    I like CP24. It’s a useful channel, and does some good local features. I can even imagine that in rare instances, for a breaking news story on a...

  • A Roar

    I was walking home through Hart House Circle, in the heart of the largely-deserted University of Toronto. There were not a lot of people around. I had...

  • Walking Philosophy

    Pedestrians will take the shortest available route where they need to go. And there’s really no reason why they shouldn’t be able...

  • Birds vs. Boards and Other News

    TTC streetcars are flying little Canadian flags off their back wires this weekend. I find this a charming little touch. NOW has an interesting article...

  • New Way to Colour the City

    Apparently the latest in random city beautification techniques is LED throwies, LED lights taped together with a battery and a magnet which can then be...

  • Ad Blights Park

    In Spacing Issue 5, I wrote about how my local park, St. Andrew’s, has recently been revitalized. I went there to eat lunch today, and I was happy...

  • Fold-Out Guide to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage

      The City of Toronto’s Heritage Preservation Services publishes a really attractive fold-out guide map to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage...

  • Kudos: Pedestrian Countdown Conversion

      We give the City a lot of grief, often for good reason, so I think it is important to acknowledge when the City does something well. Recently, the city...

  • Under Bathurst Bridge

    In the most recent issue of Spacing, David Fontaine wrote about the view of Fort York from under the Bathurst Street Bridge, the closest approximation of...