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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • Walking in Moscow

    While Moscow can’t be described as a pedestrian-friendly city (see below), it is expanding its pedestrian zones with remarkable rapidity. On a visit...

  • Reading List: Urban Code

    I just finished a curious little book called Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City. It’s by two Swiss architects who look at the...

  • REID: Re-engineering road standards for cities

    For a long time, road engineering standards have been a bane of good city-building. Generally designed to enable cars and trucks to travel safely at high...

  • REID: Making it safer to walk to school

    As is so often the case, it has taken a tragedy to get politicians talking about improving walking safety. This week, it was the killing of a high school...

  • Considering the Bay/Bloor pedestrian scramble

    Last night I attended a public meeting about changes to the intersection of Bay and Bloor, including a proposal by the City to remove the pedestrian...

  • REID: Toronto is not a grid

    We usually think of Toronto — at least the older part of it — as being based on a grid of streets. One of the city’s free weekly newspapers even...

  • Pedestrian countdown signals reduce collisions

    Last Thursday, a car performed an astonishingly dangerous turn in front of traffic at Lake Shore Blvd. and Bay. It collided with another car, and they...

  • Checking out Ottawa’s new Bank St.

    I was in Ottawa last weekend and strolled along Bank St. in the Glebe neighbourhood, which was recently re-done with new street furniture, art and paving...

  • The elegance of the plastic bag fee

    The plastic bag issue is returning to the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday. City staff are recommending a “comprehensiveÂ...

  • Toronto Walking Policy Resources

    A wide range of City of Toronto policies affect walking, but it’s not always easy to know about them or find them. This post provides a convenient...

  • The 2013 Complete Streets Forum

    If there’s one thing I learned from the 2013 Complete Streets Forum this week, it was that we in Toronto need to learn to market our city’s...

  • Doing something about city’s most dangerous intersections for pedestrians

    Tomorrow, Toronto’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee will look at a report from City staff that identifies the 100 worst intersections in...