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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • 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...

  • Design for the Cold

    Toronto is a winter city, but we often don’t like to admit it, and as a result, our public spaces are often designed so that they’re only...

  • Segway Won’t Go Away

    Since this spring, the local Segway company has been trying to get its motorized electric scooters allowed on Toronto’s sidewalks. It has managed to...

  • First Skate Plaza

    The city of Kettering, Ohio, has built the first skateboarding plaza — that is, a skate park based on the real-life street structures that...

  • Queen West Heritage District Study

    The City of Toronto is embarking on a Heritage District study for Queen Street West between University and Bathurst. The study will create an inventory of...

  • The city’s tax straightjacket

    Royson James wrote an interesting explanation of Toronto’s confusing property tax system today, as property owners across the city received their...

  • Butter Jam

    The butter billboard campaign may be clever, but this jam of the campaign (on Spadina north of Queen) is even better, turning an ad into a sci-fi...

  • Writing in Public

    Since 1999, Found magazine has been collecting messages found in public areas and sharing them with the world. This week, the Toronto Star published an...

  • Toronto Walks in October, apparently

    Apparently, the City of Toronto is going to designate October as “Toronto Walks Month.” A lovely idea, but it’s hard to find out what...

  • Keeping Segways off sidewalks

    Following a resolution by the Toronto Pedestrian Committee in April against allowing Segway scooters on sidewalks, the local distributor started a...

  • Adding insult to injury

    It’s not enough that the City has allowed Astral Media to put up massive billboards in our parks disguised as bogus “information...

  • Patchwork soccer

    Spacing‘s “Work and Play” issue discussed the importance of play in public space, both as a way of asserting public use of space, and as...