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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Shawn Micallef

  • Withrow Potluck Aug 4

    Local TTC booster and provocateur Sean Learner is shifting focus briefly to do something extremely local and hold a potluck near his house in Withrow Park...

  • The Dry Docks

    There was an epic length article a few years ago in Toronto Life that focused on The Docks and owner Jerry Sprackman, a man who never met a zoning...

  • Large shark in Dundas Square

    Thoughout the summer Dundas Square is running “Creature Feature” films each week. Tonight they’re showing Jaws. It’s free and...

  • Bikely Keeps you Safe(r)

    A website called Bikely lets people use Google maps to plot out their favorite bike routes and share them with others. The safe routes, escape routes...

  • Johnny Drives his Chevy onto the Sidewalk

    On his nice blog Aquatic Existence, Matt Ross has a post called “This really annoys me” about some guerilla marketing by Chevrolet he found on...

  • Enemies at the Gates

    Yesterday it was very hot. Those with small ecological footprints (the unairconditioned) could be seen outside of their hot boxes, muttering mad-talk on...

  • HarbourArt

    There is an art opening at Harbourfront tonight — some of the pieces focus on public spaces in various ways, including our [murmur] window, where...

  • Midwest of America

    Madison, Wisconsin, is a midwestern American city, a little different than other midwestern cities because of the University of Wisconsin and it’s...

  • Chicagoland II

    We’re done with Chicago as of this morning. It was nice, and we’ll go back. If you go, and you only have one thing to do, take a tour with the...

  • Chicagoland

    We arrived in Chicago on Wednesday. Apart from everything being remarkable, big and American, they call the whole thing, suburbs and all, Chicagoland...

  • Oh Canada

    Dominion Day Weekend was spent in dear Windsor, a most American of a hometown that tends to hide in cars and behind air-conditioned walls to escape the...

  • The Nain Rouge – Detroit’s Harbinger of Doom

    Cities have legends and Detroit has a fantastic one in the Nain Rouge. French for “red dwarf” or “red gnome,” is a mythical...