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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • Play Needs Infrastructure

    In Spacing’s third issue, Ed Keenan wrote about the importance of play — spontaneous or organized — for our city. This oft-neglected...

  • Public Space News

    As part of the reconstruction of the Don Mount Court project, the city is considering closing part of Carroll Street (between Matilda and Thompson) to...

  • Birmingham pedestrians and Public Space

    The city of Birmingham, formerly a car-centric industrial city, has tranformed its central core into a pedestrian-friendly neighbourhood of pleasing...

  • Dose of Urbanity

    We know the trend towards celebrating the city (for which Spacing can perhaps take some credit) is doing well when Dose, CanWest’s free daily, jumps...

  • Segways Put in their Place — For Now

    The Segway issue came back again to the City of Toronto’s Works Committee this morning, in a lively and sometimes surreal debate. The good news is...

  • TTC to reconnect station to its landscape

    The TTC has hired a group including noted Toronto architects Brown + Storey to help re-configure Victoria Park station and re-connect it to the ravine...

  • Royal Mess

    Today, the Toronto Star’s “Fixer” column features a corner of Royal York road where people waiting at a TTC bus stop have been...

  • Pedestrian Plans Galore

    As Toronto begins the preliminary stages of developing a Pedestrian Plan, it’s useful to see what others have done. Bicyclinginfo.org...

  • Today’s Traffic News

    A story in the Toronto Star today showed that, despite the hype about gun-related deaths in Toronto, the car was deadlier than the gun in 2005. In...

  • Don’t Drink and Walk?

    An interesting study by Transport Canada shows that a significant number of pedestrians killed in traffic accidents are drunk, often extremely drunk...

  • Local Government

    Former Mayor of Toronto and Eye magazine city columnist John Sewell is running an interesting web site devoted to local government...

  • Walking News

    The City of Toronto has a program in place to add sidewalks on both sides of all arterial and collector roads in Toronto (not local roads). The work is...