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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Matthew Blackett

  • CommonPlace Drinks

    CommonPlace Drinks: For people interested in Toronto’s public spaces WHEN: Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 – 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Dora Keogh’s...

  • A Toronto “What If?”

    Today’s Toronto Star has a great section called “What If?” It is very much like our “History of our Future” issue from last...

  • Connect the streetcars

    The TTC is considering turning two or three streetcars into one long “coupled” vehicle along the King Street streetcar route. The...

  • Architecture is a transformer

    The Saturday edition of the Globe and Mail has a few articles on the architectural and culutral renaissance Toronto is undergoing. Lisa Rochon has the...

  • Speaking of the waterfront…

    CommunityAIR, the group that helped stop the bridge to the Toronto Island Airport, is still battling hard to keep any kind of commercial airline out of...

  • Conflicting views of T.O.’s waterfront and engery needs

    Robert Ouellette had a good post on Reading Toronto yesterday (with some good links, too): “Why is it that whenever Toronto begins to improve the...

  • United We Can

    Found this article on CBC’s website about binners and dumpster divers. I like the name of the organization involved in this project: United We Can...

  • Senior ticketed for taking too long to cross street

    Gotta love this — an old lady crossing the street in Los Angeles gets a ticket from a motorcycle cop because she was too slow. It’s still...

  • Easter Egg Hunt

    The crazy kids over at Newmindspace have hatched a new plan — the Easter Egg Hunt. They need people to be involved this Sunday so if you’re...

  • Developing downtown Vaughan

    As we posted a few weeks ago, “downtown” Vaughan will rise thanks to the provincial government’s decision to fund the Spadina/York...

  • Last day for street furniture survey

    Today is the last day for the public to fill out a street furniture survey. It is very important for as many people to fill this out so that the City...

  • Public space in the news today

    Here are a few links to articles in today’s papers: The TTC is going shopping for new streetcars. The photo above, from Minneapolis, is the new...