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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Walking LA

    A woman named Lisa Salem is trying to walk all over Los Angeles, without going back home, with only a camera-fitted baby stroller sparsely packed with a...

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  • Death of an Urban Explorer

    Jeff Chapman, a.k.a. Ninjalicious, the creator of the urban exploration zine Infiltration, died this week at the age of 31. Many moving tributes to him...

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  • Banksy graffiti on Israel’s wall

    The British “guerrilla graffiti” artist Banksy has created a series of graffiti on the security wall that Israel is building through the West...

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  • Urban Oases

    The amazing Jeff Chapman has a wonderful website called Urban Oases that chronicles his, uh, times spent in Toronto fountains. He writes: “What is...

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  • The Beaches Guardian Angel

    It is not often that a newspaper does an obituary on a street person, but the Toronto Star did so this past weekend on The Beaches’ Steve Whale...

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  • Live Action Scotland Yard (L.A.S.Y.)

    Joel Friesen runs a transit tag game on the TTC. Live Action Scotland Yard (L.A.S.Y.) is a giant game of hide and seek. One guy tries to hide by using the...

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  • Coke wants billboard removed

    An interesting battle is going down in India between Coca-Cola and photogrpaher Sharad Haksar. He has been using a billboard space for three years to...

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  • Urbanism

    Chris Hardwicke runs a wonderful wesbite called urbanism.org which is a portal to the planning and architecture world. It functions in a similar fashion...

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