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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Sean Marshall

  • Mexico’s Messy Urbanism

    Mexico City is a huge megalopolis of 20 million people, all crowded into a plateau surrounded by volcanic mountains. In many ways, Mexico has the same...

  • The case for a Downtown Relief Line

    photo by Wylie Poon In the last 100 years, there have been many subway proposals that have come and gone. One of the first serious proposals, in 1911...

  • Where no streetcar has gone before

    Following the delivery of the current Canadian Light Rail Vehicles (CLRVs) and articulated ALRV streetcars in the 1980s, the TTC disposed of most of its...

  • Dispatches from Metronauts

    About 100 interested people met on Saturday for the Metronauts “unconference” to discuss ideas for transit in Toronto and the larger Toronto...

  • TTC station heritage threatened

    Accessibility activist and TTC signage guru Joe Clark has informed Spacing about a new TTC plan for the “diversification” of 63 of the 69...

  • Streetcars and LRT: Streetcar-oriented development

    Mimico, one of Toronto’s outer streetcar suburbs As Toronto begins detailed planning and consultations for Transit City, it is also looking to...

  • Bus improvements coming, but why the secrecy?

    On Sunday, February 17, the TTC will roll-out a series of major service improvements that will finally make a dent in addressing overcrowding. Many of...

  • Streetcars and LRT: Toronto’s next steps

    The Spadina Streetcar: not quite LRT Yesterday, I posted an article on Spacing Toronto briefly explaining the history and context for North...

  • Streetcars and LRT: the North American context

    Los Angeles Metro Gold Line, Pasadena, California. The light rail renaissance that has taken place across North America has taken a few interesting...

  • Dr. Soberman’s Virtual Street Tours

    Earlier this afternoon, Steve Munro posted a long and scathing commentary on a study by the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario. The...

  • The continuing saga of the Queen Car

    The 501 Queen Streetcar was recently named by National Geographic as one of the ten great tram rides of a lifetime (up there with the San Francisco...

  • Reflections on Baltimore

    Following up (and inspired by) on Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler’s post on walking in Washington, I happened to be in Charm City for a few days...