Events
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Planet in Focus opens tonight
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAgEeFv1TN4[/youtube] This week Toronto’s eco-film fest Planet in Focus (Oct 24-28) includes an exciting...
By Shawn Micallef -
Plans for Etobicoke’s city centre
Etobicoke Civic Centre The concepts for the creation of a new Etobicoke (well, now it’s called “West District”) city centre between...
By Dylan Reid -
Speaking up on taxes
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Eight prominent developers — the kind of professionals who worry about how the land transfer tax (LLT) will affect...
By Dale Duncan -
Design Thinkers: ‘Design is my weapon, Zimbabwe is my country’
DESIGN THINKERS CONFERENCE — Look in any direction, from almost anywhere in downtown Toronto, and more likely than not you’ll see advertising...
By Jessica Hume -
Human River walk this weekend
The Toronto Public Space Committee is holding its 3rd Annual Human River walk along Garrison Creek, Toronto’s biggest buried river, this Sunday...
By Dylan Reid -
YIMBY returns
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. After last year’s success, the YIMBY festival is returning to the Gladstone Hotel October 27. For those who may be out...
By Dale Duncan -
Cultural Geography in Windsor
For our Windsor readers and those who may be heading to the Sun Parlour of Canada this weekend, there is a symposium on the cultural geography of the...
By Shawn Micallef -
A good week for walking
The Walk21 conference last week got remarkable, and entirely unexpected, media coverage. In fact, I suspect pedestrian issues got more media coverage than...
By Dylan Reid -
Walk21: Wayfinding
I have a particular interest in the idea of pedestrian maps, and co-created one for the now-finished Walking Life exhibition (I hope to post an electronic...
By Dylan Reid -
Walk21: Public health and urban design
Today’s Walk21 post brings you some findings from a fascinating session on the relationship between public health and urban design as they affect...
By Dylan Reid -
Nuit Blanche in three minutes and twenty-six seconds
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AeEvBJIffs[/youtube] Spacing contributor Jessica Wolfe made a “short and rough” composition of her...
By Shawn Micallef -
Walk21 reports: the business case for walking
There’s already been far more interesting stuff at the Walk21 conference than I can easily report, so I will just give a quick taste of some of the...
By Dylan Reid