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Transportation tech bros need to listen to the Vision Zero folks
When we talk about Smart Cities, which seems to be all the time now, we hear about tensions between public governance and corporate interests. It is...
By Tricia Wood -
Toronto’s 10-year public art strategy
Last week, Mayor John Tory dropped by OCAD to declare that 2021 would be the year of public art in Toronto. This announcement sets up the release, later...
By Sarah Ratzlaff -
Run Score: Mapping Toronto’s Runnability
There’s a lot of research that focuses on the walkability of Toronto neighbourhoods. However, there has been little conversation about mapping the...
By Alexander Bimm -
MUKHERJEE: Why has Toronto police stopped enforcing traffic safety?
Does one call it callous disregard for human life or rank incompetence? Or a combination of both? I am referring to the deaths of 48 people — pedestrians...
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REID: Do you have a personal rule for appreciating Toronto as you travel?
A couple of weeks ago I was travelling on the subway between the east side and downtown when, as I always do, I looked up and out over the Don Valley as...
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LORINC: Toronto’s charter city conundrum
For some time, I’ve harboured a growing impatience with the occasional campaigns urging greater institutionalized independence for the City of Toronto...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Waterfront Toronto’s power move on Sidewalk Labs
From the moment last June when Waterfront Toronto chair Steve Diamond upstaged the much-hyped launch of Sidewalk Toronto’s Master Innovation and...
By John Lorinc -
The Toronto Reference Library’s rich collection of Communist newspapers
I am probably the last person you would expect to be perusing Communist literature. I come from a family of Mounties. I have worked on Bay Street. I have...
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Toronto could learn a lot about civic engagement from Edmonton and Calgary
Let’s assume that Doug Ford isn’t going to declare himself Premier-for-life and that one day, we will have another Premier and maybe even a different...
By Tricia Wood -
LORINC: Jagmeet Singh’s historic campaign
In 1990, Norman Inkster, then the commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, recommended to the federal government that Sikh Mounties be allowed...
By John Lorinc -
A Parkdale airbnb eviction story (but not what you think)
Last week, I learned that my landlords had succeeded in evicting me from my apartment in Parkdale, a beautiful but not inexpensive flat on the...
By Chris Frey -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 040, Canadian Cities Vote
Before Canada elects a new federal government, we thought we’d take a look at what the various parties are talking about, or neglecting to talk...
By Spacing Radio
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered