By Sheraz Khan
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Last chance to see After Utopia: an Exhibition Expressing the Beauty of a Neighbourhood
After Utopia is on at the Urbanspace Gallery at 401 Richmond Street W until Saturday, November 19. The gallery is open from 9:00am – 7:00pm...
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Recycling and shared space — A walk through an apartment dweller’s experience
“Recycling? Yeah we tried it for a while, but it just was too… complicated.” It’s a commonly-heard phrase in apartment complexes where recycling is often...
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If a tree falls in Etobicoke, does anyone notice? (Yes)
Last week I was walking to the convenience store up the street when I came across the tree above. It was the remains of a huge willow that I grew up...
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Undergrad commuter chronicles — a University of Toronto student’s movement through the city
It’s crunch time for thousands of Toronto’s students. A good proportion of these students are also commuters — students who wander through...
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Reading Toronto on the drive from the airport: Toronto’s accidental city gate
Recently, my father and I dropped my mother off at Pearson airport. As we were saying our goodbyes, I thought about what my mother might think when...
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Quick comparisons between Toronto’s and Chicago’s street grids
Chicago is often referred to as Toronto’s closest sibling. Built in similar times, with similar sizes and populations, there are obvious similarities...
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A Torontonian abroad: German tourism, first impressions and Canada’s Wonderland
I became familiar with a certain reality of tourism a month ago on a full-fledged ‘euro trip’. The reality was, it would impossible to comprehend the fine...
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Toronto-itis: How I dealt with that uneasy feeling returning home to an adolescent city
I had traveled in Europe for a month, taking in the sights and rubbing elbows with fellow city-enthusiasts (also known as tourists). It was my first time...
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EVENT: Listen to Toronto at Labspace Studio’s “The Noise Project”
WHAT: The Noise Project by Labspace Studio WHERE: 99 Gallery (99 Sudbury Street, in the West Queen West Triangle) WHEN: Friday, July 26, 6pm-12am and...
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Etobicoke stories: the DIY shortcut to Eatonville Library
My tower neighbourhood was built with modernist ideals of green space, low density and novelty. In the ‘50s, Toronto planners and architects stretched...
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Growing up in an Etobicoke Highrise & the sound of Toronto’s heartbeat
Poor amenities. Bad transit. Poor. Bad. Badly poor and poorly bad. You hear these things often about so called tower-in-the-park buildings that sprouted...