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Inside CityPlace: My Yuppie Life
You could call me a yuppie. I live in a concrete box downtown. I work as a young professional at a prominent downtown non-profit. In the months when I can...
By Ryan Bolton -
Tuesday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Toronto budget: what was saved, what was sacrificed [The Star] • Toronto’s budget balancing act [National Post] • Toronto budget...
By Laura McConnell -
LORINC: Expect Drummond’s report to muddle Ford’s transit plans
Every finance minister with even a dram of savvy knows that a critically-important part of the job description involves finding new and innovative ways of...
By John Lorinc -
Monday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Budget cuts are health-care cuts, professionals warn [The Star] • Health-care workers plead for services [Globe & Mail] • Proposed budget...
By Laura McConnell -
Spacing Saturday: Optimism, Falling Crime Rates and the Vancouver Special
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Yuri Artibise tells...
By Marcus Bowman -
Grey Toronto: The Food Vending Situation
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Toronto’s street food scene falls very short of our city’s reputation of being ethnically, and culinarily...
By Niki Siabanis -
STREET SCENE: Queen East of River
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
Fourth Wall: Good News
This series features highlights from the ongoing exhibit The Fourth Wall: Transforming City Hall. The exhibit, on now at the Urbanspace Gallery, considers...
By Hilary Best -
Removal of Jarvis bike lane to cost $272,000
Installing a bike lane takes money, but uninstalling it can take even more. And sometimes, as with the case of the removal of the Jarvis bike lane, a lot...
By Jake Tobin Garrett -
Friday’s headlines
CITY HALL • New user fees will take a bite out of Toronto wallets [The Star] • Toronto’s year-end surplus surges to $154 million [The Star] • Battle...
By Laura McConnell -
NO MEAN CITY: The genius of walk-up apartments
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Toronto’s housing market may be slowing down, but it’s been incredibly...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Thursday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Toronto to review ‘vitally important’ vision for future [Globe & Mail] • Councillors vote to send information pillars back to...
By Laura McConnell
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered