Neighbourhoods
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Urban Planet: Extending the Lives of Bridges
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Inside CityPlace: My Yuppie Life
You could call me a yuppie. I live in a concrete box downtown. I work as a young professional at a prominent downtown non-profit. In the months when I can...
By Ryan Bolton -
Fourth Wall: The Impact of Citizens’ Associations on the Culture of Civic Engagement
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 -
FOOD: Recipes for community hubs pt. 1
Editor’s note: In our Fall 2011 issue, “Hungry City”, Liz Clayton and Sean Waisglass took a look at neighbourhood coffee shops and...
By Allie Hunwicks -
Lost Villages: Claireville
Former residential building on Codlin Crescent, possibly an old toll house on the old Albion Plank Road. Today it serves as the office of a truck yard...
By Sean Marshall -
NO MEAN CITY: Tour, Centre for Justice Leadership
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture. Recently the Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards announced this year’s...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Jump Starting Community through Cricket: Valley Park Middle School’s Journey
Like kids across the city, students at Valley Park Middle School are getting into the swing of a new school year. Beyond new books and classes, there is...
By Hilary Best -
What is your favourite water fountain in Toronto?
One of the ways to counter the negative attitude that is engulfing Toronto — thanks to such things as small-minded and commie-free Facebook groups — is to...
By Matthew Blackett -
LORINC: See no evil
Here’s an awkward footnote to the latest gambit in Rob Ford’s campaign to undo everything his predecessor accomplished in office. Last week, the mayor’s...
By John Lorinc -
Church Street and Pride don’t matter anymore? Listen to some [murmur]s that suggest otherwise.
It’s been an interesting few weeks for Pride and Church Street. An article in The Grid that used a small and isolated hipster perspective to declare...
By Shawn Micallef -
LORINC: Maybe it doesn’t get better
There’s an arresting scene near the end of Milk, the superb biopic about San Francisco supervisor and gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk, in which Sean Penn...
By John Lorinc -
Lost Villages: West Hill
West Hill and its neighbouring “lost” village, Highland Creek (featured two weeks ago) share a common early history. Both villages were...
By Sean Marshall