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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...
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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...
By Dale Duncan -
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...
By Leah Sandals -
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...
By Dale Duncan -
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 -
Is Queen Street Dead? & Funeral for a Building tomorrow
Put on your blackest of black art-discourse suits and your thinking cap tomorrow as the Toronto Alternative Art Fair International hosts an afternoon of...
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Bolering alone? Alleyjaunt co-founder says “non”
Lise Beaudry, co-founder of Alleyjaunt (one of our city’s most fun summer arts fests) and an artist in her own right, will be kicking off a unique...
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New Nuit Blanche online archive
The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art has created on online archive devoted exclusively to documenation of Nuit Blanche. I’ve had a quick browse...
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The (lost) art of voting?
This morning a local arts advocacy org, Artsvote.ca, released results of their all-candidates survey on arts and culture issues in Toronto. The good part...
By Leah Sandals
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered