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Friday’s headlines
CITY COUNCIL • Who gets a key to the city? [Toronto Star] • Mayor Rob Ford gives McDonald’s Canada founder George Cohon key to the city [Toronto Star...
By Amber Daugherty -
Cities for People: the lowdown on Toronto’s Wallace Emerson Neighbourhood
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People workshop. This post was researched and written by Dakota Wares-Tani, Emily Laur...
By Shawn Micallef -
OCAD University’s Cities for People vs. Spacing
Once again we’re going to feature the work of 3rd/4th year OCAD U students who are taking my Cities for People summer workshop. The course has been...
By Shawn Micallef -
BLOCKS T.O. brings historical photos to life
Lovers of adventure and scavenger hunts took to the streets of Toronto on Saturday. Armed with cameras and archival photographs of buildings, their...
By Amber Daugherty -
Urban Planet: Moby on Architecture
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 -
What’s that smell, Toronto? It’s the Tree of Heaven, the Ailanthus Altissima, or, uh, the other name…
It’s that annual time in June when the city becomes a fertile, fecund, festering flood of steamy spoors, stamens and swampy olfactory inducing...
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NOCD: Culture meets the street downtown
Editor’s note: This is the third post in a series that investigates the emerging concept of the Naturally Occurring Cultural District (NOCD). Posts...
By Claire Nelischer -
Wearing masks in public spaces
Wearing a mask has power, especially if it’s in public and as part of a group. Humans have known this for a long time, which is why masking the...
By Dylan Reid -
Thursday’s headlines
PARKING • Toronto eyeing increase in parking rates [Toronto Star] • City looks at extending parking grace period [Toronto Sun] • Toronto eyes parking...
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Wednesday’s headlines
TORONTO ZOO • Toronto Zoo elephants’ move south delayed yet again [Toronto Star] • Toronto Zoo’s elephants may move to California sanctuary by end of...
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STREET SCENE: Weekend Congestion
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: Explaining Traffic
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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered