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Suburban homelessness
In the Toronto Star today: “As houses sprout like dandelions in new subdivisions all over the suburban GTA, the regions around Toronto have the look...
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Fallen Fruit
A community group out of LA is trying to convince people to lobby their cities to plant fruit trees. They declare: “Our cities are planted with...
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Home Tours with Darren O’Donnell
As part of the Summerworks festival, Darren O’Donnell’s theatre company brings you Home Tours. Darren will take an audience around the...
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Street signs
If you haven’t noticed, over the last few months the city has been installing new street signs to replace some of the rusting and aging wayfinders...
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Terror and the TTC
The Toronto Star reports on the 10-year anniversary of the subway accident just north of Dupont station which killed three people and injured 140...
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Subway to Nowhere
German artist Martin Kippenberger envisioned a sort of global underground system, with stations as far apart as Greece and Germany, and in his art...
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Neighbourhood walks in west Toronto
Architectural/social historian Alec Keefer, President of Architectural Conservancy Toronto, is leading a series of walks in Parkdale, High Park and the...
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A flâneur manifesto
Shawn Micallef reveals in Eye this week the key to Toronto’s hidden beauty through walking: We’re told, over and over, that Toronto is not...
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The outdoors helps your brain, kids!
A decent article from Orion on kids who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and how green spaces can help their affliction. It seems that...
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Halftone Conspiracy this weekend
The Halftone Conspiracy is a collaborative poster project open to anyone. Monthly, the co-conspirators gather, with posters they’ve created in hand...
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Comments on police cameras in public space
A few days ago we asked for your comments on The Globe and Mail’s opinion poll question: “Most of London is monitored by police cameras...
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Saturday: De-Fencing in the Annex!
On Saturday August the 6th, the Downtown De-Fence Project will be liberating eight houses from the strangulation of their rusting, isolating chain link...
By Dave Meslin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered