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Urban Planet: Jungles in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward
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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Thursday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Is Toronto cutting ‘the right gravy’? Stintz asks [National Post] • Holyday urges voters to clean up council [The Sun] • Council punts casino...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Plan your zombie escape route
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Ever visit a new city and have a hard...
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Hot Docs 2012: What to See
It’s almost Hot Docs season again, and there’s a whole fleet of films we’re looking forward to. This year’s Hot Docs festival runs...
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My City Lives: Waterfront Toronto
Ken Greenberg is an architect and urban designer residing in Toronto. Instead of redevelopment, Greenberg believes in revitalization, and the protection...
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Wednesday’s headlines
CITY HALL • City council poised for casino fight [The Sun] • Scarborough councillor calls for referendum on Toronto casino [National Post] • Councillor...
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To See: Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life
Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life crams a lot of nouns into its title, but the AGO’s retrospective of the London Ontario-born artist...
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STREET SCENE: Route 506
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: Chalktrail
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: Fixing the St. Clair “disaster”
The problem with the #StClairDisaster debate, so-called, is that the extreme rhetorical polarization whipped up by the brothers Ford precludes any...
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Should it be called the “downtown relief” subway line?
Since the Sheppard East subway line idea has been nixed (for now), attention has turned to where the next — and most logical — subway line should be...
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Urban Planet: Seasteading – Floating Tech Cities
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