Maps
Five organizations come together to produce a community map of Toronto “safeways”
By Ken Greenberg
In a great display of community collaboration, five Toronto-based organizations dedicated to improving and enhancing the city’s public... Read More
Mapping Toronto’s approved new ward boundaries
By Sean Marshall
On Monday, October 22, 2018, Torontonians will be electing a new city council. And for the first time since 2000, Toronto’s ward... Read More
The Artful City: A Year in Review
By The Artful City
By: Jeff Biggar and Ilana Altman The Artful City was formed in 2015 with a simple mission to investigate public art in Toronto and... Read More
Not In My Front Yard: The controversy of installing sidewalks
By Sean Marshall
McNicoll Avenue at Boxdene Avenue. There’s no sidewalk on the south side of this busy Scarborough road. It might come as a... Read More
5 subtle signs of lost rivers in Toronto
By Chris Bateman
Like many North American cities, the street grid in downtown Toronto is (for the most part) rigidly geometric. Where there’s an... Read More
How is your ward feeling today?
By Dylan Reid
Social media and GPS are creating opportunities to map cities in many new ways. They also provide the opportunity to map city data as... Read More
Good Reads: Spring 2015 Edition of Fort York’s newsletter Fife & Drum
By Shawn Micallef
The spring edition of the Friends of Fort York’s quarterly newsletter, Fife and Drum was released recently. Loads of maps and... Read More
Stairs to nowhere, trap streets, and other Toronto oddities
By Chris Bateman
There’s a set of stairs on Greenwood Avenue that lead nowhere. At the top, a wooden fence at the end of someone’s back... Read More
This is what the Toronto subway tastes like
By Chris Bateman
Union Station tastes like fried onions. James Wannerton knows this because he tastes words. Due to a rare and unusual neurological... Read More
Toronto’s mayoral election in five more maps
By Sean Marshall
Yesterday, University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski summarized the link between Monday’s election results and the... Read More