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The emergence of the “Toronto Special” Modernist walk-up apartments
The “Toronto Special” is a distinctly urban home that emerged during a post-war period associated with the rapid expansion of suburban...
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WHY WE CAN’T GO: Debunking the Costs of Operating Public Washrooms, pt. 3
Parks Forestry and Recreation (PFR), according to City of Toronto data, operates over 1,500 parks, nearly 700 sports fields, 123 community recreation...
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Why We Can’t Go: City Flushes Time Away, pt. 2
Anyone who spends time in cities, and not just Toronto, likely has both a mental map as well as a strategy for finding a place to go, and knowing what to...
By John Lorinc -
Why We Can’t Go: A Report on Toronto’s Public Washrooms, pt. 1
Because this is Toronto, and because it’s important for officialdom to do certain things backwards, we’re going to spend this week — the days...
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REID: Sixty-two pages of overdue staff reports
Asking overburdened staff for reports is one of the favourite pastimes of Toronto city council. But what happens to those report requests? It turns out a...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: Highway 413 and Doug Ford’s tactical whataboutism
Going in to this election, did anyone really expect that it would come to focus so intensively on that great big ribbon of blacktop planned and now known...
By John Lorinc -
The Power of Place: Artists as City Builders
Welcome to The Power of Place: Artists as City Builders. This series emerged out of my strong interest to share with you the incredible work that is...
By Barbara Gray -
The Power of Place: Artists as City Builders
Welcome to The Power of Place: Artists as City Builders. This series emerged out of my strong interest to share with you the incredible work that is...
By Barbara Gray -
EXCERPT: The Islands In My Brain, from “I Own This Town” by Mayor Bert Xanadu
“I Own This Town” is a Toronto-centric collection of essays, screeds, proclamations, asides, orders, observations, outbursts and flattery that...
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The Power of Place: Artists as City Builders
Welcome to The Power of Place: Artists as City Builders. This series emerged out of my strong interest to share with you the incredible work that is...
By Barbara Gray -
Streetcar photography as a window to Toronto’s changing landscapes
By Brian Doucet and Michael Doucet This excerpt is adapted from Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto: a visual analysis of change, by Brian...
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Gerald Hannon: A tribute in his own words
The veteran journalist, educator and activist Gerald Hannon died earlier this week, at the age of 77. Hannon, a co-founder of The Body Politic, left an...
By Gerald Hannon
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered