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Urban Planet: Sidewalks as a Predictor of Voting Patterns
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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Instaflaneur: Queen Street West’s most valuable boring parking lot
The former City TV parking lot along some of the most valuable bits of Queen Street West sidewalk has remained a parking lot. There’s some irony...
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Thursday’s headlines
MR. CHRISTIE’S BAKERY • Bakery workers lash out at old Christie plant closure [Toronto Sun] • Christie’s Bakery workers devastated by job...
By Mairin Piccinin -
NO MEAN CITY: Andrew Blum plumbs the Internet
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Most days, I spend all day and much of the evening lost in the internet. Lost...
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Wednesday’s headlines
MAYOR ROB FORD • TTC’s Andy Byford describes ‘garbled’ call from Mayor Rob Ford about bus [Toronto Star] • Ford shelter bus saga: In quotes [Toronto...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Spacing on CBC Radio’s Here and Now each week
For the last month, Spacing’s publisher Matthew Blackett has been a weekly guest on CBC Radio’s Here and Now. His column is called Curious...
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Urban Planet: Iskandar Malaysia
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
STREET SCENE: Shorter Days
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Tuesday’s headlines
MAYOR ROB FORD Toronto Mayor Ford denies responsibility for bus fiasco [The Globe and Mail] Mayor Rob Ford equally disturbed TTC transported football...
By Jonathan Zettel -
LORINC: Doubling Down on Toronto’s Future
It was difficult not to think about the nature of civic leadership last week, what with New York mayor Mike Bloomberg serving as the face of a metropolis...
By John Lorinc -
Monday’s headlines
MAYOR ROB FORD TTC chief ‘not happy’ buses diverted to pick up mayor’s football team [The Globe and Mail] TTC, police deny...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Instaflaneur: Queen & Church golf
At Queen and Church, above an Irish pub, you can buy golf supplies on the third floor. The economy works in ways we do not understand.
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered