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5 IDEAS: Urban design challenges of spring weather in a pandemic
With recent warm days foreshadowing lovely spring weather, the public health response to the worsening COVID-19 crisis seems destined to collide with the...
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COVID-19 is a wake-up call for Toronto to act on housing and homelessness
In order to flatten the COVID-19 curve, Canadians have been advised to stay home as much as possible and, when going out, to engage in social distancing...
By John Clapp -
KELCEY: Cities are mostly forgotten in pandemic policy decisions
Outside our locked-down doors, Canadian mayors are wielding emergency powers. City bus drivers are literally risking their lives to help travellers get...
By Brian Kelcey -
Skateboards, Rollerblades, Scooters: The Orphans of Active Transportation
When we think of active transportation, we typically refer to the traditional modes of walking and cycling. But is it time we direct attention to...
By Alexander Bimm -
LORINC: Ford Nation’s phony construction shut-down during pandemic
If you’d tuned in to the Ontario government’s daily press briefing last Friday, you would have seen a grim-faced Doug Ford presenting the sobering...
By John Lorinc -
Observing urban change through the window of a GO train
I wrote this piece last year, long before Covid 19 kept almost everyone at home and before riding transit was something to be avoided for all but the most...
By Brian Doucet -
KidScore: Towards a more child-friendly, post-pandemic city
For many of us, one of the nagging questions added to our pile of brand-new worries in recent weeks concerns the physical and mental well-being of...
By Josh Fullan -
MARY ROWE: Fostering Covid-19 resilience in Canada’s cities
This is a guest column by Mary W. Rowe, CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute Over 80% of Canadians live in cities, making us one of the most urbanized...
By John Lorinc -
MARSHALL: Mapping TTC crowding during a pandemic
Sean Marshall is a Toronto planner, transit advocate, and long-time Spacing contributor. This is cross-posted from his personal web site. While most...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Paying rent in a pandemic
It’s the first of the month, which means, for many Toronto tenants, that rent’s due – a perennial transaction that was already imbued with stress, and...
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In face of Covid-19, what if Canada’s health system looked like our housing system?
Covid-19 is making everyday life feel like dystopian fiction. But imagine an even more apocalyptic scenario: what if Canada’s health system looked like...
By Emily Paradis -
KidScore: Children telling planners what they value in public space
In the world of city planning and design, there are tools for measuring everything from the number of vehicles passing through an intersection to the...
By Josh Fullan
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered