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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...
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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...
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Save Otter Loop II: Opponents Speak; You Should Too
(Otter Loop photograph by Richard Leitch) Janice Etter, Chair of the Etobicoke-York Community Preservation Panel, offers this update on the drive to...
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United We Can
Found this article on CBC’s website about binners and dumpster divers. I like the name of the organization involved in this project: United We Can...
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Cycle Disobedience
Albert Howell has a great article in the Globe and Mail highlighting issues surrounding the role of local goverment to supply cycle-safe infrastructure...
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Senior ticketed for taking too long to cross street
Gotta love this — an old lady crossing the street in Los Angeles gets a ticket from a motorcycle cop because she was too slow. It’s still...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered