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Monday’s headlines
PARKING • Hume: Toronto parking lot wins international award [Toronto Star] • GO warns Clarkson customers to brace for parking wars [Toronto Star] IN THE...
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War of 1812: When Toronto was under attack
To help mark the War of 1812’s bicentennial year, staff from the Archives of Ontario will be posting a series of articles highlighting their related...
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Urban Planet: Tiles Harnessing Pedestrian Power
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: At Abell St.
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Friday’s headlines
ON THE STREET • Toronto’s 10 worst streets for traffic gridlock [Toronto Star] • Toronto’s most congested intersections [Toronto Star] • Jarvis bike lane...
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Urban Planet: Urban Plant Tags
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 -
Thursday’s headlines
TRANSIT • Six ways to improve the Allen [The Grid] • James Pasternak’s musing on TTC citizen members is alienating one of the better candidates...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Civilization in the year 3991 AD
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. A decade-long computer simulation has...
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Should Toronto allow the entrance marquee to flourish?
Stroll through New York City’s Upper West Side and you will undoubtedly find yourself walking beneath a canvas entrance marquee. (Spacing senior editor...
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Without an active mayor, city council needs to show discipline
For close to a year, city council has been the substitute for our crisis-a-day mayor. In its collective role as mayor, council has become acutely aware of...
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Wednesday’s headlines
RIVERDALE FARM • Riverdale Farm handed funding lifeline from executive committee [Toronto Star] • Riverdale Farm won’t be put out to pasture...
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LORINC: What We Talk About When We Talk About Guns
In the wake of the Eaton Centre shooting, The Sun’s Joe Warmington declared predictably that Toronto is “a dangerous city.” The rebuttals – statistical...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered