Civic Engagement
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Headspace: Nick Saul, The Stop Community Food Centre
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
Fourth Wall: Engaging Young People in Local Governance
This series features highlights from the ongoing exhibit The Fourth Wall: Transforming City Hall. The exhibit, on now at the Urbanspace Gallery, considers...
By Hilary Best -
Headspace: Laura Reinsborough, Not Far From the Tree
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
NO MEAN CITY: How to invite people into the development process?
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture The always energetic Dave Meslin has noticed a design problem that needs some...
By Alex Bozikovic -
The Fort York Bridge: how I learned to stop worrying and love that Toronto sucks
This is a stupid old story that we’re all bored with, but you know when people mumble “Toronto sucks” or “Toronto isn’t...
By Shawn Micallef -
Headspace: Jane Farrow discusses Jane’s Walk
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
City seeks to eliminate citizens’ advisory committees
Toronto’s City Manager has sent a proposal to City Council’s executive committee for their April 20 meeting that seeks to eliminate most...
By Dylan Reid -
Headspace: Brian Iler from Community Air discusses the tunnel
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
Have Your Say on the City Budget. You! (Not you.)
Photo by HiMY SYeD / photopia. The Budget Committee held a meeting during the lunch break of Thursday’s Council session. It lasted from 12:45–12:50...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
Head Space: Christina Zeidler, YIMBY festival organizer
This new, regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become...
By Luca De Franco -
Electoral reform: it’s all about voter turnout
We in Toronto are blessed with an electoral system that is the envy of many people worldwide, who cannot vote at all, or who do so in an environment that...
By Hilary Best -
Reclaiming parks, one nap at a time
After weeks of protest about anything and everything G20, this weekend a more quiet form of civic disobedience will come to a public space in Toronto, but...
By Nicole McIsaac