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Wednesday’s headlines
ROB FORD’S LEVEE • Hundreds show up for Mayor Rob Ford’s New Year’s levee [Toronto Sun] • Mayor’s levee proceeds without a hitch...
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STREET SCENE: Bathurst Station
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: The agricultural cliff
While the fiscal cliff is dominating news in the States, there is a growing concern about the agricultural cliff. Farmers are growing older, and few are...
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Urban Planet: Nests made of cigarette butts
. Birds are using cigarette butts in their nests, but this might not be a bad thing. Some say that the nicotine acts as a toxin to keep parasites at bay...
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NO MEAN CITY: Don River Park, Hurricane Sandy and the meadows that will save Bay Street
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture What did we learn about building cities in 2012? From Superstorm Sandy, the...
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STREET SCENE: Season’s Greetings
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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New Fife & Drum out, the jam-packed newsletter issued by the Friends of Fort York — subscribe for free today
The Friends of Fort York, the volunteer advocacy organization that has helped look after the interests of City of Toronto’s premier museum site...
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Urban Planet: Cloud architecture hits Seoul Korea
Known as The Cloud, these two hi-rise residential buildings are joined in the middle by a ten stories of apartments and spanning living areas. Designed by...
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STREET SCENE: Locking Post
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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2 DAYS LEFT! Spacing pop-up store at Centre for Social Innovation
WHAT: Spacing pop-up store WHEN: Thursday and Friday 2pm-6:30pm WHERE: Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst St, ground floor For the next two...
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Q&A with Dan Bergeron: Evergreen Brick Works’ Underground Kilns
At the Evergreen Brick Works more than 40-million bricks a year were produced, bricks that helped define much of Toronto’s skyline. Now, to...
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GREENBERG: 8 steps to change the future of the Gardiner
It now appears that an important threshold has been crossed. With the news that over half of the elevated Gardiner Expressway on both sides of downtown...
By Ken Greenberg
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered