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NO MEAN CITY: ‘tactical urbanism’ and the Green Line
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Architects and urban designers, have a look at this: The Green Line, a new...
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Urban Planet: Project-a-lane bike lights
BLAZE – Kickstarter Launch Video from BLAZE COMPONENTS on Vimeo. Has your mayor ripped out all your bike lanes? Fear not! Blaze has a solution, or...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Op-Ed: Laying down the law on police budget? Maybe next year
Two key figures in the Ford administration have signaled their willingness to take on a Herculean task that, politically, only a right-wing administration...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Wednesday’s headlines
TORONTO ZOO • Cubs’ deaths at Toronto Zoo highlights difficulties of polar bear breeding [Toronto Star] • Toronto Zoo open to breeding polar bear again...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Spacing holiday and release party this Thursday!
WHAT: Holiday & release party WHEN: Thursday Dec. 13, 8pm until closing! WHERE: The 3030 (3030 Dundas West in the Junction) COST: Free! You get copy...
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STREET SCENE: Vintage St. Clair
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: Detroit’s Packard plant
The video tells the story of Detroit’s Packard plant. The hundred-year-old building once produced luxury vehicles, but now it sits crumbling...
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Yesterday’s spate of pedestrians hit by cars
I was on CBC Radio 1’s Metro Morning this morning to talk about the spate of 9 pedestrians hit by cars in 45 minutes on Monday morning. The spate...
By Dylan Reid -
The story of Toronto’s first housecat
We don’t know much about Toronto’s first cat, but what we do know seems to suggest that he arrived on a July morning in 1793. Toronto was just...
By Adam Bunch -
Lost Villages: Huttonville
Nestled in the Credit Valley is the hamlet of Huttonville, at the corner of Mississauga Road and Queen Street/Embleton Road in the City of Brampton. Until...
By Sean Marshall -
Tuesday’s headlines
MAYOR ROB FORD Mayor Ford takes vacation, leaving town Monday [The Globe and Mail] Mayor Rob Ford flies off discreetly on vacation [Toronto Star...
By Jonathan Zettel -
LORINC: Building a better budget at city hall
I’ve been a business reporter longer than I’ve covered politics, and I can say without fear of contradiction that the City of Toronto’s budget documents â€...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered