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Thursday’s Headlines
STRIKE • Long strike feared [Toronto Star] • No, we’re not calling in the army [Toronto Star] • Police won’t cut picket line...
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Reaching the Summit: New Approaches to Street Design
Just three days into this year’s Bike Month, a damp May 28th was host to Bike Summit 2009, a day-long conference on cycling policy co-hosted by the...
By Emma Feltes -
Development signs of the times
Back in July 2008, I bemoaned the City of Toronto’s lack of decent signage for public notices related to development applications. Having spent a...
By Matthew Blackett -
World Wide Wednesday: Burning river, Dial4Light, suburban retrofit and more
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
By Jake Schabas -
Bodies in Urban Spaces
Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner and photographer Lisa Rastl have combined to create ‘Bodies in Urban Spaces,’ a public art exhibit that...
By Jake Schabas -
Wednesday’s Headlines
STRIKE • Public trashes strike [Toronto Star] • City workers are our neighbours and friends [Toronto Star] • Trash build-up? Could be worse...
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Bike blitz: helpful or harmful?
Yesterday marked the beginning of this year’s Bike Blitz. Officially, it’s called the “Safe Cycling — Share the Responsibility...
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Checking in on the Roundhouse renovation
Built in 1929-31, the John Street Roundhouse is an architectural wonder. Its 32 bay semi-circular structure centred around the now functional turntable...
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STREET SCENE: Bathurst and Fleet
A streetcar turns around War of 1812 sculpture by Douglas Coupland at Bathurst and Fleet streets. Spacing is happy to launch an illustrated series of blog...
By Jerry Waese -
More than a bridge: Reflections on Bridging the Design Gap
Several weeks ago, the members of Bridging the Design Gap, an informal design charette, posed the question: ‘when is a bridge more than just a...
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Tuesday’s Headlines
STRIKE • David Miller engineered walkout, union says [Toronto Star] • Toronto is making me mad as hell [Toronto Star] • Expect long...
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JOHN LORINC: On streetcars, strikes and the question of control
For all the spin and counter-spin hovering around the David Miller-John Baird feud over the streetcar “ask,†most observers have neglected to account...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered