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TODERIAN: Canada needs a federal ministry of cities
Richard Florida called last week for President Obama to create a national US department of cities. When the author of The Rise of the Creative Class and...
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Thursday’s headlines
NEW TORONTO AREA CODE New area code coming to Toronto [Toronto Sun] New area codes coming for Toronto and GTA phones [Toronto Star] GTA to get two new...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Hand drawn map of Japan’s intricate rail system
Artist Wyton Cho has hand drawn Japan’s rail system. The colourful lines intersect and meet at stations, and present an immediate sense of how vast...
By Jonathan Zettel -
IN THIS ISSUE: Tiny House Society of Craven Rd.
This article appears in the current issue of Spacing available on newsstands across Canada In the east end of Toronto, between Coxwell and Greenwood...
By Amber Daugherty -
Wednesday’s headlines
TCHC TCHC buildings violent ‘drug fortresses’ [Toronto Sun] TCHC officials ‘saddened’ by shooting [Toronto Sun] CITY HALL...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Bike-powered urban farming documentary
Filmmaker Sasha Thomas recently released this short documentary on Toronto’s City Seed Farms and its founder Erica Lemieux. Lemieux’s...
By Dale Duncan -
STREET SCENE: Morning Snow Dog
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Poster campaign to promote 50 ideas for a new city
Check out these amazing posters that were put up all over New York City to help promote ideas for a new city. The project was launched and hosted by Urban...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Tuesday’s Headlines
TRANSIT Snow, streetcars and street parking: A perennial recipe for traffic chaos [Globe and Mail] Go Transit, Barrie line Quiet Zone a silent success...
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Richard Serra’s King City Shift revisited — sunrise to sunset
This past fall I revisited the Richard Serra Shift sculpture, found up in King City, and wrote about it in my Toronto Star column. The Ontario Heritage...
By Shawn Micallef -
Monday’s Headlines
TTC TTC keeping pigeons away from Bathurst station with sounds of distressed birds [Toronto Star] If Toronto wants improved transit, the people will have...
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LORINC: The dueling plans for the Downtown Relief Line
Here’s a quirky coincidence: The future of the Downtown Relief Line (DRL) rests, at the moment, in the hands of six women — three politicians and three...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered