Neighbourhoods
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Cities for People: Fort York’s new neighbours
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 — Toronto Port Lands
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 — the Niagara Street neighbourhood
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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Event Guide: St. Clair Feet on the Street
Toronto enjoys many main street pedestrian festivals over the course of the summer (Taste of the Danforth being possibly the most famous and...
By Dylan Reid -
OCAD Cities for People vs. Spacing
Consistent Spacing Toronto readers will recall last June students in my then-brand-new 3rd year Cities for People workshop/course at OCAD University...
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Regent Park Film Festival: Call for Submissions
It’s film festival time again… rather, it’s the time to start thinking about film festivals. If you’ve got a story to tell and an...
By Mike Bulko -
A Kensington Lefty in King Rob Ford’s Court
Rob Ford’s climactic parade into the hall. As soon as I entered the Toronto Congress Centre, my friends pulled me into the lineup they were standing...
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Changing face of Cabbagetown
It always starts with a Starbucks. It swiftly lands on the neighbourhood doorstep and things start to change. Gentrification. Up-and-coming...
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Bike lanes would help Bloor West Village businesses
The current street design paradigm in this city seems to assume that one of the biggest opponents to bike lanes on Toronto’s major arterials are the...
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Disco Road: The land that metric forgot
An old street sign in the foreground, with a newer metric speed limit sign and the Disco Road waste transfer station in the background. Disco Road, a...
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Residents propose a fix to Queen streetcar route
As Transit City pushes forward — the Finch LRT was approved yesterday at city council — with the goal of providing reliable public transport to the...
By Marcus Bowman -
GTA’s lost villages: Thistletown
23 Jason Road, Thistletown’s first house, built around 1802 Thistletown, perhaps Toronto’s best-hidden historic neighbourhood, is located at...
By Sean Marshall