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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Sean Marshall

  • Montreal: FRAG on the Main

    Walking up St. Laurent Boulevard (colloquially known to Montrealers as the Main) earlier in the month (I was in town partly to satisfy my appetite for...

  • Wednesday’s Headlines

    • TTC success? Not so much [Toronto Star] • Cash for TTC is there: Perks [Toronto Sun] • Fast-ferry idea leaves some livid TTC...

  • Where in the GTA?

    I made another visit to a 905 downtown earlier this week. It’s fairly accessible by transit and not too hard to find by car. The small downtown is...

  • The Sam’s sign vs. the CityTV truck

    CityTV will soon be vacating the 299 Queen Street West address that was for years the iconic home of CityTV, Much Music and other cable television...

  • Presto Farecard: Revolution or Hyperbole?

    Images from prestocard.ca Today’s newspapers are fawning over a new farecard (see yesterday’s and today’s headlines posts), to be called...

  • Ireland Park: solemn, hidden and engaging

    Only two weeks after HtO Park opened to the public, another public space opened with a very different purpose and spirit than the urban beach. Ireland...

  • HtO Park: Toronto’s Waterfront takes a big step forward

    Last weekend, Toronto’s newest public space, HtO Park opened to the public. This is probably the most exciting addition to Toronto’s...

  • San Francisco’s port lands redevelopment

    I was in San Francisco just over a week ago, for the first time. One of the many things I did was try out the new T-Third Street light rail line, which...

  • Where in the GTA?

    The GTA has a surprising number of walkable, urban outposts, most of which you can even get to without a car, if you’re determined enough. Some GTA...

  • Exploring the ‘burbs: Ebenezer

    In one of the newest parts of Brampton is one of several juxtapositions that occur when Toronto’s urban sprawl takes over small villages and...

  • Where have our streetcars gone?

    It has been a bit of a mystery to me why the TTC (and Toronto for that matter) doesn’t take its transit history as seriously as it should. London...