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Wednesday’s Headlines
• More dog runs proposed [ Toronto Star ] • Be prepared to pay for new trees [ Toronto Star ] • Sam the Record Man to auction off a piece...
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Sexual Innuendo + Anti-Speed Racing Ads = Safer Pedestrians?
Just came across an interesting approach to reducing speed racing — and making streets safer for pedestrians — from the land downunda. It...
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Spacing invites you to Municipal Mind book launch Wednesday
MUNICIPAL MIND BOOK LAUNCH Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City by Toronto’s Poet Laureate Pier Giorgio Di Cicco When: Wednesday June...
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Presto Farecard: Revolution or Hyperbole?
Images from prestocard.ca Today’s newspapers are fawning over a new farecard (see yesterday’s and today’s headlines posts), to be called...
By Sean Marshall -
Tuesday’s Headlines
• Ont. minister says multi-system transit card a first for Canada [ cbc ] • Fare enough: Single card aims to ease ticket trouble [ Toronto Star...
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City Hall: The executive committee’s take on the climate change action plan
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Here’s what some councillors had to say about the Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan, which...
By Dale Duncan -
Should museums be public spaces, the sequel.
Following plenty of blog chatter last week around the demise of “Five Dollar Fridays†at the ROM (and accompanied by traumatic flashbacks about the...
By Leah Sandals -
Monday’s Headlines
• To revitalize waterfront, first give city hall a shake [ Toronto Star ] • We’re happy to report on a barrel of repairs [ Toronto Star ...
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A sense of scale, a sense of space, a sense of place?
Photo: St. Thomas St, Yorkville A second construction hoarding was erected on St. Thomas St south of Bloor recently, across the street from an existing...
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Ireland Park: solemn, hidden and engaging
Only two weeks after HtO Park opened to the public, another public space opened with a very different purpose and spirit than the urban beach. Ireland...
By Sean Marshall -
Supreme Court establishes right to open city governments
London, Ontario city hall In a pleasing precedent, the Supreme Court of Canada last week ruled unanimously that all Ontarians have a right to observe...
By Dylan Reid -
The Impervious P-lot
A little while ago, before the snow melted, a small group of us met up in an Ottawa office space to interview architect Scott Hayward about “greenâ€...
By Amber Yared
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered