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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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
STREET SCENE: Locking Post
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
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 -
Thursday’s headlines
TTC • TTC surplus won’t postpone fare hike [Toronto Sun] • TTC studies whether Wheel-Trans changes needed [Toronto Sun] • Woman hit by...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Urban Planet: Getting to work on a trampoline?
You might forget your battle for bike lanes after you see what Finnish architects are doing. Known as the Fast Track, the 51-metre long trampoline track...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Instaflaneur: mo urinals no problems
Last week’s Toronto Star column looked at the public washroom problem in Toronto. One of those sustained pressure issues in the city. We used to...
By Shawn Micallef -
Wednesday’s headlines
TRANSIT • TTC’s Wheel-Trans ‘unsustainable’ as is, scathing auditor general report says [Toronto Sun] • Makeover recommended for TTC...
By Mairin Piccinin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered