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Toronto City Hall is turning 40
Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:30 – 10 pm The September 1965 opening of the newly designed City Hall marked an era of architectural experimentation...
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Gas tax cometh
It seems like there has been a lot of transit-type news lately. So here’s another one, this time from today’s Toronto Star. “Nothing...
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Transit: York subway, new TTC initiatives, and VIVA’s growing pains
It’s only a matter of time before the TTC gets the green light to build its long-awaited subway to York University, says Ontario Finance Minister...
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Guerilla gardening goes mainstream
Mainstream gardening writers are finally catching on to the guerilla gardening phenomena. We’ve seen articles on GG this summer in the Globe and...
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Israel security wall art
As Dylan Reid posted on the Wire August 22, 2005, the security wall Israel is building in the West Bank is being used as a public canvas for artists and...
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Road construction halted
Last month, housing developers unearthed a native burial ground while widening a road north of Canada’s Wonderland. What is worse, York Region...
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Life in the Bike Lane
Offthemapgallery is moving to a new location and celebrating the move with a Green Bike Convoy and an exhibition called Life in the Bike Lane curated by...
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Slipping through the CNE’s spectacle
Spacing associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote about the CNE in this week’s Eye. In keeping with his psychogeographic ways, Shawn wanders through the...
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Sewell on street signs
John Sewell writes in Eye this week about the erection of the re-designed street signs. Over the past year he has had a very difficult time getting City...
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York Region’s VIVA
The Toronto Star had some great coverage of York Region’s new VIVA transit system in the Saturday paper. Reading it online is fine, but the two page...
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No to TVs in subway cars
On Wednesday, TTC commissioners voted 4 to 3 against a pilot project that would place TV screens with endless commercial loops in our subway cars. Hats...
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Street art from around the world
If a wide range of graffiti and street art excites you, then you should bookmark the site Streetsy. The site is updated daily with most of the images...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered