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Wednesday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Councillor joins fight to keep long-gun data [Globe & Mail] • Doug Ford backs property tax freeze, while mayor says let’s see [Globe &...
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My City Lives: “Old Town Toronto” part III
In the third instalment of our video series with Bruce Bell, Toronto’s famous historian, we have profiled St. Lawrence Hall. Built in 1850 by William...
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HEADSPACE: Author Gabriel Campanario discusses the Art of Urban Sketching
Sketching is a way of discovering communities, showing lively streetscapes, soaring architecture and intriguing faces. Gabriel Campanario‘s book The...
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STREET SCENE: In Transit On Broadview (on the 505)
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: LA’s First Pedestrian Plaza
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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Tuesday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Toronto Board of Health wants to use city surplus money to fight bed bugs [The Star] • Mayor Ford appears to be reconsidering property-tax...
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Today is deadline for Creative Mapping Contest!
Spacing magazine presents the CREATIVE MAPPING CONTEST Do you love maps? Are you an illustrator, graphic designer, or visual storyteller? Spacing wants...
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Urban Planet: Street Vendors’ Guide
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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LORINC: Is there an app to help Ford’s leadership skills?
Is there an app that would help Mayor Rob Ford figure out the transit file? Late Friday afternoon, the mayor’s office leaked the news that the city’s 2011...
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Monday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Toronto’s surplus makes Rob Ford a happy man [Globe & Mail] • Fords take aim at top doc [NOW] • Levy: Ford cuts the waste [The Sun] • Gee...
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Hot Docs: Tchoupitoulas
Tchoupitoulas is about what happens in a city at night: its quirks, its personalities, its sounds. It’s about what happens in New Orleans specifically, a...
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Hot Docs: The Field of Magic
The Field of Magic is the kind of documentary that rarely gets made today. Taking the now generally unpopular observational approach, it offers a raw...
By Marco Avolio
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered