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Coming clean on Regent Park’s Social Development Plan
By Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie and Lena Sanz Tovar Earlier this year, the City of Toronto at long last approved $635,000 to partially fund the Regent Park...
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Farewell, Regent Park
By Lena Sanz Tovar and Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie Farewell Oak Street, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1953, presents a before-and-after...
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LORINC: Building a better residents association
We live in a society where individuals aren’t regulated in the ways in which they participate in (legal) group activities — from reading groups to sports...
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REID: Our bridges should be places we want to walk
The City of Toronto is criss-crossed with ravines and sunken railways, and the way we connect the city across these gaps is with bridges. The most famous...
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FULLAN: Take the students outside this school year
With school resuming over the next few weeks, the most important message many Canadian students can hear right now might not have anything directly to do...
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‘Out of this world’ sculptures land in midtown
In Toronto, there are a number of public artworks that re-imagine the human subject. I’m thinking, for example, of Hadley+ Maxwell’s Garden of Future...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 049, City scenes that saved summer
It’s been a rough summer for everyone, but people have found ways to get outside and make the most of it. In this episode, we speak to 8 80...
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Toronto’s squirrels have become carnivorous
On a trip to the Rogers Centre for a Blue Jays game last summer, Catia Brito caught sight of a large grey squirrel eating on a patch of green grass below...
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CAST ASHORE: When nature creates a jewel out of human castoffs
Near the west end of Toronto, the twin peninsulas of Humber Bay Park give way to Lake Ontario in a series of scalloped bays girded by armour rock and huge...
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RECYCLING WOES: Toronto struggles to adapt to increased contamination and lower prices
Recycling programs across North America are struggling to cope with rising costs and declining revenues, and Toronto’s program is not immune to the...
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Why is urban planning so white?
By Saquib Ahsan, Ruth Belay, Abigail Moriah, and Gervais Nash The deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Abdirahman Abdi, Ejaz Choudry, and countless other...
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REID: Remembering Doug Taylor, a historian of Toronto
Doug Taylor, one of Toronto’s local historians, died recently at the age of 82. I got to know Doug because we were both among the inaugural inhabitants of...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered