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Tuesday’s headlines
DEVELOPMENT • Queens Quay the ugly could become Queens Quay the grand boulevard [Toronto Star] • Ryerson’s reborn Maple Leaf Gardens rink set for grand...
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Urban Planets: Kids, Cars and Cognitive Mapping
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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Monday’s headlines
LAKE ONTARIO CROSSING • Exhausted, but jubilant Annaleise Carr completes Lake Ontario crossing [Toronto Star] • Annaleise Carr, 14, youngest person to...
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Urban Planet: Rear Window Time Lapse
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: Broadview and Queen
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Friday’s headlines
ROB FORD • Mayor Rob Ford gets a driver — in Edmonton [Toronto Star] • Councillor Doug Ford says he will convince Mayor Rob Ford to accept a driver...
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NO MEAN CITY: Toronto Rising
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Hard to believe that September’s Toronto International Film Festival is...
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Spacing brings you another great night of lawn bowling
We’ve had a great time playing lawn bowling with the Royal Spacing Lawn Bowling Society of Toronto over the past two weeks (pictures and video to...
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Urban Planet: Calthorpe on China’s Automotive Urbanization
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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New plan actually improves the Port Lands
Last week, Waterfront Toronto released a revision of the plans for the Port Lands (pictured below). The revision was part of the “Port Lands...
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Instaflaneur: the Rochester ferry terminal has the best lonely view in the city
The Rochester ferry terminal is a lonely, lonely place these days. Rochester! We hardly knew you. I, like everybody (?), always meant to take the ferry...
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MOVE Expo explores the past, present, and future of urban transportation
To reach Evergreen Brick Works, visitors typically walk to a subway station, hop on a train, and transfer to a shuttle bus. This multi-modal transit trip...
By Claire Nelischer
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered