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Greening our cities
Fred Kent, director of Project for Public Spaces out of New York, has a great column on how Placemaking can reinvigorate the environmental movement. The...
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Weekend round-up of links
Murray Whyte of the Star write about orphan spaces: “They are the unloved, invisible and, chances are, right outside your door — dozens of...
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The suburban urban forest
In Sunday’s Toronto Star, Kenneth Kidd has a great piece about the urban forest in suburbia: …The houses duly go up, some of that topsoil gets...
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Cleveland and Whitehorse bike racks
Since Toronto is about to embark on a massive street furniture project, we should to take a look at other cities for inspiration. The top image is a bike...
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Pedestrian Crossover Review
I told someone recently that I had been at a meeting dealing with a review of pedestrian crossovers, and they got that glazed look in their eyes. But once...
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Lucky Quebec
Cross-posted from the Eye Weekly blog. The Province of Quebec and its municipalities have just struck a deal that’ll make Toronto, and other Ontario...
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Street-side mood lighting, bike tips and tactics
Spacing‘s associate editor Shawn Micallef has an article in the Globe and Mail today about street-side mood lighting in Wrexham, Wales. “If...
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Council Sidesteps Dog Decision
What is the public space conflict that arouses the most intense passions in the largest number of people? Is it cyclists versus motorists on our streets...
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Bye-bye, Monster Bins
The monster garbage bin project is dead! Well, almost. This week, the City’s Works committee agreed to begin the process for a fat-ass street...
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Ring Cycle: More Phone Numbers
In an email exchange with city staff regarding the previous post about missing rings from bike lock-ups, staff have told me the number to call regarding...
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Missing rings from post
The blog bricoleurbanism.org is reporting that the metals rings from Toronto bike racks are missing along a stretch of Dundas St. West (just east of...
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Who You Gonna Call? Obstacle-Busters!
At the Toronto Pedestrian Committee in January, we heard a presentation from city staff about sidewalk obstacles (construction scaffolding, patios...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered