By Jake Schabas
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EVENTS: YIMBY Festival 2013
On Saturday, February 16th, community groups and campaigns that celebrate backyard projects big and small will unite in an annual “Yes In My Back...
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Events Guide: R.C. Harris Works for Toronto 1912 – 45
Editor’s note: For more on R.C. Harris and the restoration of the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant, check out our summer 2012 issue. WHEN: until...
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Humanizing traffic counts at Toronto intersections
Humanizing and humanely utilizing the endless stream of data coming out of cities may be a 21st century urban planner’s greatest challenge. Eyes on...
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Double standard holding back bike-share while car-sharing expands
Last week, Tyler Hamilton wrote a good column in the Toronto Star on the rise of car-sharing companies in Toronto. Entitled “Not owning a car in T.O. has...
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Searching for a network on the new CN Leaside bike trail
When it comes to transportation planning, networks get a lot of credit. This is particularly true in grid cities like Toronto, which transportation...
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The condo retail we need
Last week, the mainstream media awoke to the fact that it’s not just knee-jerk NIMBY reactions driving Torontonians to fight new condo developments. It’s...
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Keeping top transit chiefs in tough times
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. A far cry, maybe, from how Billy Ocean intended it, but this old English proverb loosely describes the...
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Stories from the Big Apple: In Fine Company
If there’s any takeaway from the recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers report ranking Toronto second behind New York City for the world’s best city for finance...
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Stories from the Big Apple: New York City’s bike lane backlash
A press gallery silenced. A mayor building a reputation for being MIA. Councillor Minnan-Wong proposing forward thinking bike infrastructure on main...
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Events Guide: Mobility Pricing Conference
WHAT: Mobility Pricing Conference WHEN: Thursday, February 3, 2011 WHERE: The Metropolitan Hotel, 108 Chestnut Street An interesting group of academics...
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Loving parking lots in Portland
Portland, Oregon gets a lot of credit as cities go. “The city that works” really does work, as I found out when I visited last weekend. An early North...
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Battle brewing over school playground
Just how public is a public school playground? That’s the question currently being asked at Hillcrest Junior Public School, my old elementary school just...