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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 035, Activate
In this episode, we join Thomas McKechnie, playwright and organizer with Foodsters United — a new union working for a fair deal for food delivery workers...
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Game day transit planning
When the Leafs or Blue Jays play a home game, Doug Tuira doesn’t watch to see if Auston Matthews will score an overtime winner or Roberto Osuna will close...
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Understanding Ron Arad’s new public art at Yonge and Bloor
Outside of One Bloor East, two towering cylindrical figures slink around one another. The sculpture’s reflective steel encasement is contrasted with hints...
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Fascist neighbours: Thanks to Mussolini’s rise, Toronto’s Italian fascists were energetic in asserting their worldview
During the 1920s and 1930s, Italian Torontonians witnessed the establishment and expansion of a sizeable fascist element within their community. Benito...
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LORINC: The time to plan for the driverless revolution is now
During a week when the city was buzzing with thousands of tech types here for the ritual in-gathering that is the Collision conference, it seems...
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Cricket keep-up: changing demographics mean adapting facilities to reflect new needs
Multiple World Cup appearances. Team Canada captaincy. Blistering statistics as a batsman. As far as Canadian cricketing is concerned, Zubin Surkari has...
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Vanishing venues: new funding models favour festivals over small music clubs
Since January 2017, Toronto has lost more than one live music venue per month, with 76A, The Central, The Comfort Zone, Hard Rock Café, Harlem (East)...
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Women’s urban citizenship: the history of purpose-built apartments for women
From turn of the century boarding houses to today’s condo boom, housing has long been both the gateway and the barrier to the city for single working...
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Green space invaders: a look at Toronto’s unwelcome plant guests
For over 200 years, invasive plant species have wreaked havoc on Toronto’s green spaces. While the City continues to combat them, these unwelcome guests...
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OP-ED: Toronto’s planning needs less politics, not more
Brad Bradford is a Toronto city councillor and former urban planner When I saw Doug Ford’s new planning legislation my first thought was “wow...
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REID: On Public Etiquette
It’s not a coincidence that words for people who understand good etiquette – polite, urbane – are related to classical words for cities (Greek polis...
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Bark is worth the fight: after decades of conflict, dog parks have found a place in the city’s greenspaces
As a kid in the 1970s, the superintendent in Ricky Farrell’s North York apartment complex paid boys a nickel a turd to collect the mess of dog feces that...
By Edward Brown
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered