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The Kids are Alright
(Image of the Wyld-Darling building on Bay Street, after the 1904 fire — via Toronto Archives) John Barber’s Globe column today, A city in...
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Saturday’s links to news
The quest for more [Toronto Star]: With barely half the polls reporting, Sean Hill erupts with words nobody wants to hear, let alone believe. “We...
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TTC to introduce two-colour token to combat counterfeits
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. This coming Monday, the TTC will unveil a new token designed to combat the counterfeits that have flooded the system...
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Lecture on “The New Landscape”
Christopher Hume profiles local landscape architect Janet Rosenberg in the Star today. She says interesting things about the difficulty of creating...
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Making Toronto’s streets
Streets are at the heart of a city. They take up a quarter of all land in the city. They should be the places where people gather and experience urban...
By Dylan Reid -
The fate of the Cherry Beach trees
Anyone interested in learning more about plans to build soccer fields on the contaminated, but forested, soils by Cherry Beach — and judging by the...
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Forget convenient Slurpees! I want convenient art!
Lest the promisingly whelming weekend art fairs left you over- or underwhelmed (or, uh, you just couldn’t make it) now might be the time to soothe...
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Crossing anywhere on St. George
The Star‘s “Fixer” had an interesting story recently about curb cuts along St. George St. in the University of Toronto campus. During...
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ELECTION DAY in TORONTO
Today is election day. We have a lot of blog posts going on over at Spacing Votes, including city council endorsements and predictions. You should keep an...
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Are you voting for a Davis or a De Baermaeker?
The Toronto Public Space Committee (TPSC) has posted two illuminating videos on their website showing impassioned speaches on outdoor advertising from...
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Cariboo Avenue
(Crossposted with Spacing Votes — a tour of Cariboo Avenue) In a recent thread here on Spacing Votes, Danny Nardelli (the motorist responsible for...
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Sexy public transit, part II
Sexy public transit? Beauty (and sexiness) is in the eye of the beholder, but rapid transit lines spread out all over the GTA in the next 10 years gets me...
By Craig Cal
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered