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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Laura Hatcher

  • A better street food scene?

    Toronto’s street food scene is reduced to hot dogs and sausages — it seems the most variety you’ll find here is bacon bits at one vendor...

  • Spotlight Toronto: Planet in Focus Film Fest

    The 7th annual Planet in Focus International Environmental Film and Video Festival will be taking place November 1 to November 5. Planet in Focus has just...

  • condo BOOM! opens next week

    From September 21 to 30, The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West) will be hosting condo BOOM!, an exhibit that aims to explore “the marketing...

  • Getting Oriented

    A helpful stencil artist is making it easier for you to get your bearings after leaving the subway — someone has been spray painting directional...

  • Philadelphia’s Autobiographies

    With Art Attack! just a couple of days away, here’s another example (albeit a top-down one) of the reclamation of spaces typically reserved for...

  • Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland.

    Detroit is one of the most striking and well known examples of urban blight and “white flight” in North America. Many, many buildings are...

  • Vancouver takes on the World

    As a tribute to the UN Habitat World Urban Forum taking place in Vancouver this week, Vancouver weekly The Georgia Straight dedicated many of its pages to...

  • Toronto’s new lobbyist controls

    With the proposed new Toronto Act stating the City of Toronto must implement a lobbyist registry, and with the Bellamy Inquiry reccommending that the city...

  • condo BOOM! call for submissions

    Multistory Complex and The Theatre Centre are in the process of putting together an exhibit that explores the marketing, development and impact of...

  • Art on the Move

    As part of their Environment Week, the University of Toronto is hosting   [A]lternative [R] [T]ransportation: Art on the Move, an art exhibit and...

  • Planning Downsview Park

    Located at the edge of the City of Toronto, but in the centre of the GTA, the Downsview Park site could become a significant public space, and one of...

  • City soundtracks

    Walking through the city, one is treated to a variety of sounds — it could be the conversation of the people walking ahead of you on the sidewalk...