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Nice Cans
I found some nice trash cans today that reminded me of throwing garbage out in the old days. Sometimes I worry that doing all this is bordering on some...
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Goethe Deconstruction Time Again
If you missed the first panel discussion a month or so ago on Urban Deconstructions currently at the Goethe-Institut (it was very good – they...
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Toronto homeless survey
Jeff Gray writes in today’s Globe and Mail: A controversial one-night city survey of the homeless is set to go ahead this week, despite opposition...
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CommonPlace Drinks
CommonPlace Drinks: For people interested in Toronto’s public spaces WHEN: Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 – 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Dora Keogh’s...
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Bike Share Program in Lyon, France
Spacing contributor Anjali Mishra writes to us about a comprehensive Bike Share program in Lyon, France. “The bike sharing programme in Lyon leaves...
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A Toronto “What If?”
Today’s Toronto Star has a great section called “What If?” It is very much like our “History of our Future” issue from last...
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Vancouver Impressions
Continuing my series of thoughts about public space in other cities, I visited Vancouver for the first time in years earlier this winter. It’s a...
By Dylan Reid -
Again with the waterfront…
Spent part of the afternoon wandering along the Windsor waterfront & Detroit River. On the west side — “downriver” — Windsor...
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Connect the streetcars
The TTC is considering turning two or three streetcars into one long “coupled” vehicle along the King Street streetcar route. The...
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Architecture is a transformer
The Saturday edition of the Globe and Mail has a few articles on the architectural and culutral renaissance Toronto is undergoing. Lisa Rochon has the...
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Speaking of the waterfront…
CommunityAIR, the group that helped stop the bridge to the Toronto Island Airport, is still battling hard to keep any kind of commercial airline out of...
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Conflicting views of T.O.’s waterfront and engery needs
Robert Ouellette had a good post on Reading Toronto yesterday (with some good links, too): “Why is it that whenever Toronto begins to improve the...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered