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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...
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Alley Jaunt wants to flaunt
Alley Jaunt is seeking five special projects for its 5th anniversary. Here are the deets: We want to do more than jaunt, we want to FLAUNT our five years...
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City Hall sniping, TTC developments, and assorted links
CITY HALL articles: • Councillor decries secrecy of hydro pole deal [ Globe and Mail ] • Inside City Hall feature [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
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Best of 2006: bike lanes
It’s nearly impossible to pick a “best” bike lane for 2006 — I mean, 10 kilometres were added to the bikeway network last year...
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A little history of the TTC’s web site
Since we created the subway station buttons over two years ago we’ve come into contact with a lot of rail fans and people with a real passion to see...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered