Civic Engagement
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10 NO BRAINERS: Open the Core to Food Trucks
10 No Brainers to Make Toronto More Awesome! is a project of the Centre for City Ecology that highlights small, achievable actions at the City-level that...
By Claire Nelischer -
10 NO BRAINERS: Activate our Laneways
10 No Brainers to Make Toronto More Awesome! is a project of the Centre for City Ecology that highlights small, achievable actions at the City-level that...
By Claire Nelischer -
10 NO BRAINERS: Foster Fruit Trees
10 No Brainers to Make Toronto More Awesome! is a project of the Centre for City Ecology that highlights small, achievable actions at the City-level that...
By Claire Nelischer -
10 NO BRAINERS: Practice Participatory Budgeting
10 No Brainers to Make Toronto More Awesome! is a project of the Centre for City Ecology that highlights small, achievable actions at the City-level that...
By Claire Nelischer -
10 NO BRAINERS: Reclaim our Visual Environment
10 No Brainers to Make Toronto More Awesome! is a project of the Centre for City Ecology that highlights small, achievable actions at the City-level that...
By Claire Nelischer -
10 NO BRAINERS: Say “Yes” to Parklets
10 No Brainers to Make Toronto More Awesome! is a project of the Centre for City Ecology that highlights small, achievable actions at the City-level that...
By Claire Nelischer -
If a billboard falls in a forest….. (Part 2)
Five weeks ago, I wrote the first installment of this saga which I described at the time as a “shocking tale of procedural inertia, bureaucratic...
By Dave Meslin -
MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 1
Bathurst and Davenport cross each other just below the steep shoreline of ancient Lake Iroquois. The intersection is lush with greenery and steeped in...
By Dave Meslin -
Understanding the proposed Development Permit System
The City of Toronto Planning Department is proposing to introduce a new option for managing development, the Development Permit System (DPS), which could...
By Dylan Reid -
Started from the bottom now we’re here
The exhibition “Hands-On Urbanism: How to Make a Difference,” at Urbanspace Gallery until March 7th, showcases stories of groups of people — who aren’t...
By Dale Duncan -
Inequality — the real issue behind the Ford crisis in Toronto
The circus of Rob Ford has gained international media attention and been fodder for late night comedians. It does represent a real crisis of governance...
By Hassan Arif -
Frustrated by obstructive sidewalk condo ads, Toronto artists get creative
Toronto artists Sean Martindale, Adam Krawesky, and Martin Reis are tired of sandwich-board condo ads cluttering the city’s sidewalks, so they’ve used...
By Josh Sherman