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Street furniture, pregnant transit riders, and idling busses
A few things from the Star today: 1. An article on street furniture and how the city is about to put a call out for a RFP. 2. An article about pregnant...
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Transit Notes – February 17, 2006
Crossposted from Transit Toronto. The Toronto Transit Commission unveiled its February service changes earlier this week (details here), comprising...
By James Bow -
Some good readings
A few tasty reads for you: here are three recent columns from Christopher Hume at the Star. The first column is about the public art at Toronto’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Suburban Party
Our friends at the Toronto Free Gallery are hosting The Suburban Party (Friday, Feb 17, 2006) during our exhibit of In Transit. They’ll take the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Goodbye, Regent Park
They’ve started tearing down Regent Park. For weeks now I’ve been walking through the middle of it, on my way from Cabbagetown down to the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Starchitect Landing
Editor’s note: The AGO invited a handful of people and organizations from Toronto’s blogging community to be part of the media launch of Frank...
By Shawn Micallef -
Queen Street of Hearts
Those crazy kids from Newmindspace were at it again — last night/this morning a team of chalker made a mural of hearts along Queen Street West from...
By Matthew Blackett -
Seattle’s waterfront revitalization
There are many similar parallels between Toronto’s and Seattle’s waterfront revitalization projects. The only real difference is that their...
By Matthew Blackett -
SPACING: Public Space Invaders film night Feb. 28
WHEN: Tuesday, February 28th • doors @ 7pm, films start @ 7:20pm WHERE: Drake Hotel Underground • 1150 Queen St. West HOW MUCH: $5-10 sliding...
By Matthew Blackett -
A little more ad creep
Some of our readers have been emailing us about the new Pattison ad pillars (NOW magazine had a small piece on them this week). The structures are new...
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Alexandra Park Memorial Mural
An attractive mural has been painted onto a wall on Cameron Street, at the edge of the Alexandra Park housing development, in memory of a long-time...
By Dylan Reid -
Queen St. West Heritage meeting
The second Public Meeting for the Queen Street West Heritage Conservation District Study will be held on Wednesday February 22, 2006 — 7:30pm at...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered