Neighbourhoods
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Lost Villages: Highland Creek and Danforth Road
The Morrish General Store at Kingston Road and Meadowvale; now the home of the Scarborough Historical Society At the dawn of the 19th century, a road was...
By Sean Marshall -
Street Stories: Victoria Park Avenue
In the wake of October’s election, much has been made of differences and divisions amongst Toronto’s population. The city’s Victoria Park Avenue is no...
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Google misplaces CN Tower
It seems that search engine superpower and go-to map company Google has had some problems arranging Toronto lately, with the city’s most iconic building...
By Travis Myers -
Street Stories: Jameson Avenue
While West Queen West is cluttered with advertisements reaching out to so-called bohemians, the sidewalks of Jameson Avenue are decorated with a more...
By Eric Mutrie -
Street Stories: Baldwin Street
Walking onto Baldwin Street at lunch hour is like walking into a Business Improvement Area’s best-case scenario: the trees are lush, the storefronts...
By Eric Mutrie -
Sometimes, it’s about the small public spaces
On Sunday, September 26, I attended the official opening and dedication of the new Robert Leek Memorial Park, a small, yet thoughtful public space tucked...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Rossi’s newest tunnel vision
Where to begin, or, perhaps more accurately, where to end? That’s the question Rocco Rossi’s troops flatly refuse to answer about his newest pledge to...
By John Lorinc -
Cities for People – Niagara Street Design Intervention: here comes the Giant Bacon
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class is about)...
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Cities for People — New Toronto design intervention
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class is about)...
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City shying away from shared street on John
Last fall, I took part in a walkabout along and around John Street with an urban planner who was working on a master plan for the Entertainment District...
By Dylan Reid -
Cities for People — Alexandra Park Design Intervention
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class is about)...
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Cities for People — New Toronto
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class is about)...
By Cities for People