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Civic improvements
CBC’s Metro Morning show this morning features an interview with Toronto’s chief planner, Ted Tyndorf, (RealPlayer streaming audio, 4:47...
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Article links to kill time on Monday afternoon
illustration of 48 Abell, Queen St. W. I’ve compiled a bunch of links from blogs, today’s papers, and the weekend papers. Also, Robert...
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Canadians & the Common Good report
Canada25 has just launched its fourth national policy report: “Canadians & the Common Good: Building a Civic Nation Through Civic...
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In this week’s NOW
Dylan Reid based his latest NOW article, No place to meet, on the 64 comments made to his recent Spacing wire post, in which he asked: “if you had...
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Librarians do it better
While certain civic bureaucracies continue to confound and anger many Torontonians, the Toronto Public Library seems to be doing everything right...
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Dale Duncan heads to City Hall
Spacing‘s managing editor Dale Duncan is now writing a weekly column for Eye Weekly on the soap opera that is known as City Hall. Each week...
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Portlands Energy Centre to host Canada’s largest solar research facility
A press release (PDF) was issued today announcing that the Portlands Energy Centre, the embattled power plant going up in the Portlands, will host...
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TWRC issues Herculean challenge
As far as urban planning goes, few things are more exciting than a good design challenge. Take a derelict or declining space, ask some of the...
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Bikely Redux
Back in July I wrote about a new Google map hack called Bikely: A website called Bikely lets people use Google maps to plot out their favorite bike routes...
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Best of 2006: The Waterfront
2006 was a year of ups and downs for the Waterfront. We saw an innovative design competition announced for the Central Waterfront with a widely popular...
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Turning video billboards into public art
Ji Lee, creator of the Bubble Project, which allowed passerby to alter and respond to advertising billboards, has gone digital – well, sort of. His...
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Help improve the TTC’s website
On New Year’s Day, Robert Ouellete, the editor of Reading Toronto, posted a challenge to TTC Chair Adam Giambrone: let the bloggers of Toronto give...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered