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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
TRANSPORTATION TTC: Media enjoy preview ride aboard new streetcars [Toronto Star] Mayor Rob Ford paints curbs red for Toronto traffic project [Toronto...
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The Great Toronto Stork Derby — why the city went baby crazy during the Great Depression
It all started on Halloween in 1926. That’s the day Charles Vance Millar died. He was a rich Toronto lawyer and financier — best known for modernizing a...
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STREET SCENE: Board Man
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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REID: Toronto is not a grid
We usually think of Toronto — at least the older part of it — as being based on a grid of streets. One of the city’s free weekly newspapers even...
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MOD TORONTO: Three space-age apartment buildings by Uno Prii
To coincide with the cover section of Spacing’s summer 2013 issue, we bring you a series of posts by local architect Robert Moffatt that examine...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
TRANSPORTATION TTC policy paints employees as dishonest, says union head [Toronto Star] Road closures: Gardiner losing two eastbound lanes [Toronto Star...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
TRANSPORTATION Ontario transport minister and TTC chair patch things up on live TV [Globe & Mail] TTC launches internal whistle-blower program...
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Amazing drawings from 1949 of TTC subway construction
While plowing through thousands of images in the City of Toronto’s archive database I came across a series of illustrations by John DeRinzy that...
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LORINC: Why City Council’s Scarborough subway is another undecision
Okay, so now what? After last week’s multi-act debacle, the question hovering over Toronto city council’s Scarborough subway gamble is the obvious one...
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Mirvish Village, circa 1982
One of the current ironies being played out in the Honest Ed’s for sale saga is that the creation of Mirvish Village happened by accident. In the...
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STREET SCENE: East of AGO
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
SCARBOROUGH SUBWAY Video Scarborough subway: Ontario’s $1.4 billion pledge not enough, Karen Stintz says [Toronto Star] Scarborough subway: Route makes...
By Julie Fish
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered