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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • Dreams of Front Street

    The Union Station precinct study (led by various architects and consultants) held a public meeting tonight to discuss options for re-shaping Front Street...

  • Union Station Precinct

    The City of Toronto is planning to revamp the precinct around Union Station — one of the most central and busy but also most neglected parts of...

  • New Orleans Installs Free Public Wi-Fi

    The City of New Orleans is installing free public Wi-Fi (wireless internet connection) throughout the city, by hanging simple, cheap, shoebox-sized boxes...

  • DIPS and other fun at City Hall

    New local street standards for Toronto A joint committee of Works and Planning today considered the “DIPS” report from staff which sets...

  • Toronto’s Governance

    There has been much talk recently that the City of Toronto’s governing structure needs to be reformed, and earlier this year the City appointed a...

  • Kingston Road LRT

    The TTC is proposing a new dedicated streetcar line in Scarborough along Kingston Road to Eglinton and then west to Kennedy station. They are asking for...

  • Student transit in Scarborough

    The Varsity, the University of Toronto student newspaper, has an interesting story in today’s issue about the difficulties facing students taking...

  • Union Station Precinct Meeting

    As part of the planned renovation of Union Station, the city is holding a “precinct study” to look at how to renovate the area around the...

  • Housing Projects and Public Space

    An important dimension of the recent two-week bout of rioting in France, one that a few people have noted, is the shape and use of public space. According...

  • Pedestrian lighting

    One way to make streets more friendly to pedestrians at night is to incorporate pedestrian-scale streetlights over the sidewalk. The Harbord BIA has...

  • Shadow games

    When a new development is proposed in Toronto, the developer has to conduct “shadow studies” to make sure that it will not cast unreasonable...

  • Random Act of Pole Art

    People complain when utility poles are decorated with posters, but I doubt anyone complained when these utility poles at the corner of Cross and...