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Urban Planet: Art structure made of bicycles
It took 760 bicycles stacked on top of each other to create this massive art structure. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei produced the stunning work of art as part...
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Toronto’s streetcar network in 1926
Sample of Roman Fomin’s 1926 map of streetcar and interurban map available on Transit Toronto Transit Toronto is a great website dedicated to, well...
By Sean Marshall -
Wednesday’s headlines
TORONTO BUDGET 2013 Commie councillor appeases firefighters’ union [Toronto Sun] Ford’s legal woes affecting budget talks, some councillors...
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STREET SCENE: Reflection
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: Introducing Wendy the smog-eater
This giant spiky blue pavilion, known as Wendy, is making its rounds to showcase how architecture can stretch the limits, ignite the human imagination...
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Urban Planet: NASA-NOAA cities at night
Check out these stunning space visuals of sprawling city lights etching their way across the earth. Scientists from NASA and NOAA are using these...
By Jonathan Zettel -
STREET SCENE: GO
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Thursday’s headlines
TDSB • TDSB head Chris Spence apologizes for plagiarizing [Toronto Sun] • Toronto school board director apologizes after admitting he plagiarized opinion...
By Mairin Piccinin -
NO MEAN CITY: Ada Louise Huxtable, and building for the future
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I was deeply saddened to learn this week that Ada Louise Huxtable had passed...
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Walkable winter cities when the weather is frightful!
VANCOUVER — A couple of weeks ago Vancouver was hit by a significant (at least by our standards) and unexpected snowfall. For a city more used to being...
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Urban Planet: Soda bottle lights
In low income communities across the globe, natural light is often unavailable in windowless homes crowded together under corrugated metal roofs. Even on...
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Wednesday’s Headlines
GARDINER EXPRESSWAY • Gardiner Expressway $4M environmental assessment revived [Toronto Sun] • Gardiner Expressway study to be resurrected [Toronto Star...
By Mairin Piccinin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered