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The city revisits the expressway
Like so many roadways of the 1950s and ’60s, Seattle’s I-5 freeway cut through the city and destroyed pedestrian connections between...
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Light poles disappearing in Baltimore
No one is sure why 130 light poles in Baltimore have disappeared.
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Dreams of Front Street
The Union Station precinct study (led by various architects and consultants) held a public meeting tonight to discuss options for re-shaping Front Street...
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Light pollution
Above is a real-time image of the northeast of North America. At night, it clearly demonstrates the amount of light pollution our continent creates...
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BMX park along the waterfont?
Tomorrow evening (Wednesday, December 14) Councillor Sylvia Watson is holding a community meeting to discuss the idea of building a BMX course at Marilyn...
By Dale Duncan -
Vanity Fair and Toronto
Looks like Vanity Fair has a thing for Toronto. On VanityFair.com, Tepper Anderson visits our fair city and discovers the vibrancy of Toronto’s...
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Is Toronto ready to grow up?
(all links go to the Toronto Star) Is Toronto ready to grow up? Christopher Hume ponders this qestion in his column today regarding the potential overhaul...
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Development developments
Today the Ontario government proposed new legislation that would give councils and citizens more power to determine what developments go ahead, and...
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Hybrid taxis in NYC
On November 10, 2005 the first hybrid taxi fleet was launched in New York City. The vehicle runs on a combination of gas and electricity and generally...
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The posters of climate change
Yvonne Bambrick, one of the organizers behind Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, sent along a photo of some of the street art that lined the streets...
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Subverting graffiti
Christopher Hutsul has an interesting piece in the Toronto Star today about a Sony graffiti promotion in NYC and San Francisco: Graffiti purists are...
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The Art of Psychogeography
The Ideas section of today’s Toronto Star has a feature on psychogeography. The article notes a growing interest in psychogeography among artists...
By Laura Hatcher
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered