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GTA population grows by 9.2% since 2001
Statistics Canada has started to release data from the 2006 census at the City level – including population figures for Toronto and the GTA (or at...
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Public Dublin
Though only in Dublin a very short time, I got the feeling it’s a happy city. And a public one. The streets in the city centre are absolutely full...
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Exhibition Opening: Urban Design or Civic Design?
Imagine small gardens on sidewalks. Imagine buying your fruits and vegetables from inner city farms. Imagine parking lots with trees, where people can...
By Julie Yamin -
Screening of anti-sprawl film Radiant City
Sprawl is eating the planet. Across the continent the landscape is being leveled – blasted clean of distinctive features and overlaid with a...
By Keith Stewart -
TAKE A GUESS: name this intersection, March 13th
Since our current issue is all about intersections we thought it’d be fun to play a game. We want you to identify this intersection. Leave your...
By Matthew Blackett -
Tuesday’s Headlines
• Couturiers have designs on funding [ Toronto Star ] • Make Toronto’s fashion scene the new Milan MPP urges [ cbc ] • Big Apple...
By Julie Yamin -
Brain-enriching upcoming events
Here are a couple of interesting events coming up later this month: On Thursday March 22nd, 2007 Moving the Economy, with the support of Transport Canada...
By Dylan Reid -
Public space as a tool for world peace
Budapest, 2004 On March 17, 2007 Peace Signs will be formed on every continent of Earth. The demonstrations will take place in London, Nairobi, Buenos...
By Julie Yamin -
Whatever happened to Old Toronto?
Interested in the ways in which human behaviour, space, design, and culture interact? Or how they have the ability to foster new relationships between...
By Julie Yamin -
TAKE A GUESS: name this intersection, March 12th
Since our current issue is all about intersections we thought it’d be fun to play a game. We want you to identify this intersection. Leave your...
By Matthew Blackett -
Monday’s Headlines
• Lapel pins become hot button in Council [ Globe and Mail ] • The fix is in for these problems [ Toronto Star ] • Gridlock can be cured ...
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Exploring the ‘burbs: Ebenezer
In one of the newest parts of Brampton is one of several juxtapositions that occur when Toronto’s urban sprawl takes over small villages and...
By Sean Marshall
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered