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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • 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...

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  • Cycle Disobedience

    Albert Howell has a great article in the Globe and Mail highlighting issues surrounding the role of local goverment to supply cycle-safe infrastructure...

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  • 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...

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  • Cycling Map is Out

    I just got a copy of the new 2006 Toronto Cycling Map. It’s new and improved – it looks crisper and glossier, and the routes stand out better...

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  • Public Art Abuse?

    I was walking past the parkette at the S-E corner of Bloor and Spadina on Thursday night about 7:00 when I saw three guys on bikes riding on, leaning on...

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  • Congestion Inflation

    The Toronto Star reports that congestion is costing us $2.3B-$3.7B a year and that the new provincial budget is planning to spend $1.2B to invest in...

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  • Crazy cycle lanes

    BBC news asked readers for photos of bizarre bike lanes and got some good ones.

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  • Good articles from the Star & NOW

    Some recent articles in the Star are worth posting about: 1. The City wants to crack down on vehicles idling. 2. Royson James writes about the need for...

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  • Bike lane on Bloor

    It is for real this time — there is a bike lane on Bloor Street West. Well, kinda. An anonymous reader sent us the above photos and wrote, “I...

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  • We Are Traffic — Bike Themed Art Show

    This appeared in my OCAD mail box today — I don’t know anything about it, but maybe some folks might be passing by and want to pop in and see...

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  • Bike lane stunt on Bloor

    Cycling activists are holding a bike-lane making party on Friday at 2pm at Bloor and Yonge (the above photo is an attempt to visualize what the lane would...

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  • 6x parking density

    Six bicycles to one car: the bike park occupies a single carpark space, a critical proposal of the space of parking. By Adrien Rovero & Inout Projects.

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