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Friday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Toronto city hall licensing committee treated to unexpected pole dance [National Post] • Pole dance put on at Toronto city hall [The Sun] â€...
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Ryerson celebrates permanent pedestrian zone on Gould Street
Ryerson University community members and city staff took to the streets this past Wednesday — or more specifically, to Gould Street — to celebrate its...
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Urban Planet: Houston’s Crosswalks
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
CITY HALL • Mayor Rob Ford’s fight against city-ordered campaign finance audit to begin in April [The Star] • Former integrity commissioner gave...
By Laura McConnell -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Yemen’s 16th century skyscrapers
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Residential high rises weren’t...
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York U Cities Institute free lecture by Shawn Micallef Friday: How to fall in love with your city, while avoiding a culture war
What: Free public lecture hosted by the City Institute of York University Where: York University, Room 140, HNES Building When: Friday, March 30th 2:30PM...
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My City Lives: Adam Vaughan
Adam Vaughan is serving his second term at Toronto City Hall where he is completing his mandate to bring change. In this video Vaughan discusses how to...
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Laneway Housing: The 24 laneway of Kensington Market
EDITOR: This is the second post in our series looking at the laneway housing projects created in a University of Toronto Architecture Faculty’s...
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Toronto Streetcar t-shirts on sale all week
WHAT: Toronto Streetcar t-shirt sale WHEN: Today until Sunday (March 28-April 1) WHERE: on Spacing’s e-store COST: $22 (usually $30) with promo code...
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Wednesday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Fiorito: Mayor drunk on power [The Star] • Mayor responds to accusations he jumped the gun on election call [Globe & Mail] • ‘Rob...
By Laura McConnell -
Around 40% of people in Toronto walk at least part of their commute
The new report from Toronto Public Health, The Walkable City: Neighbourhood Design and Preferences, Travel Choices and Health (PDF), provides a crucial...
By Dylan Reid -
Urban Planet: Open Spending Budgeting App
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