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uTOpia Redux: The State of the Arts
On Sunday Coach House Books is launching the second volume of uTOpia, this time called “The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto”...
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Toronto Life covers
Toronto Life just celebrated its 40th anniversary. That’s a huge accomplishment for a Canadian magazine, and even more remarkable since their...
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Automatic Train Control: What’s the Catch?
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. Image by David Cooper, courtesy the Toronto Star. TTC Chairman Howard Moscoe waxes on about the benefits of automatic...
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Wednesday’s links
Suburbs focus hard on Miller [Toronto Star]: Toronto Mayor David Miller earned a strong mandate from the former city suburbs in last week’s...
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Good public art that does a public good
If you happen to be in Montreal in the next few days, be sure to check out the big tent erected at Place Emelie-Gamelin near Berri/UQAM station. No, the...
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You won the election, what’s next?
Cross-posted from Spacing Votes The confetti’s been swept from the campaign room floor, but a whole new mess awaits Toronto’s new city...
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Tuesday’s links
Rookies arrive in Hall of power [Toronto Star]: Beginning at 1 p.m. [Chin Lee] and the six others — Adam Vaughan, Anthony Perruzza, John Parker...
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Diamonds are for selling, forever
The Star runs a piece today in the GTA section about a group that’s trying to save an old ad on Weston Road north of Lawrence from being eroded...
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Soccer fields in the Port Lands — the continuing debate
A view from what will one day be called Lake Ontario Park. Thursday night, I went to the Port Lands Action Committee meeting to learn more about the...
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Affordable developments not stranger than fiction
During the recent municipal election, a number of candidates spoke passionately about creating more affordable housing. A certain over-exposed downtown...
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Public spaces melting?
Ok, so it’s not exactly waterfront news, but there’s an article in today’s Star about the effects of global warming on Toronto’s...
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Dancing in the streets
Tired, like Billy Idol, of just dancing with yourself? Or tireder still, like OK GO, of dancing on treadmills at the gym? Well break on out of that...
By Leah Sandals
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered