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Thursday’s headlines
GUN CRIME • Police release wanted notices for gun-crime suspects ahead of Caribbean Carnival [National Post] • Warnings re-issued for gun-crime suspects...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: That time Paris melted
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. From the “we swear it’s...
By Mike Bulko -
Double standard holding back bike-share while car-sharing expands
Last week, Tyler Hamilton wrote a good column in the Toronto Star on the rise of car-sharing companies in Toronto. Entitled “Not owning a car in T.O. has...
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Meet Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto’s new chief planner
In the lead-up to the previous municipal election, Spacing identified the most pressing urban issues facing the city. In our urban planning feature we...
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Wednesday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Rob Ford’s ancestor landed in Canada for being ‘unruly’ [Toronto Sun] • Councillor targets gangsters [Toronto Sun] • Adviser...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Urban Planet: How to Disrupt Public Space
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: On King
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Instaflaneur: underpants out front
Ever since Ontario banned bans on clotheslines, walks through the city can be like a walk through Honest Ed’s, like here in the downtown west side.
By Shawn Micallef -
Neither snow, nor ice, nor sleet will keep a kid from walking to school
Do children let bad weather stop them from walking to school? One of the reasons some parents give for driving their kids to school is the climate —...
By Dylan Reid -
Tuesday’s headlines
DEVELOPMENT • Historic postal station site may be for sale [Toronto Star] • Mississauga ice rink: IcePark wants to build multi-use winter facility...
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Urban Planet: Barcelona’s Vegitecture
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 -
Instaflaneur: late evenings on the Toronto Islands municipal pier
A Sunday afternoon spent on the Hanlan’s Point beach ends waiting for the Wards Island ferry back to the mainland. With ferry cutbacks to an already...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered