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Toronto 1966
Cyberia, “The Urban Planning Portal”, has a forum section where somebody posted some hot pictures from the top of the TD Centre in 1966, when...
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The Beaches Guardian Angel
It is not often that a newspaper does an obituary on a street person, but the Toronto Star did so this past weekend on The Beaches’ Steve Whale...
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Live Action Scotland Yard (L.A.S.Y.)
Joel Friesen runs a transit tag game on the TTC. Live Action Scotland Yard (L.A.S.Y.) is a giant game of hide and seek. One guy tries to hide by using the...
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Coke wants billboard removed
An interesting battle is going down in India between Coca-Cola and photogrpaher Sharad Haksar. He has been using a billboard space for three years to...
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The Beautiful City Billboard Fee
Them.ca, a Toronto-based non-profit street art organization, announced today the launch of a new project called The Beautiful City Billboard Fee (BCBF)...
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Sinister Paradise of Dubai
Dubai, the Las Vegas of the Middle East, has a distinctive and inviolable criterion when it comes to development in its city: everything must be...
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Lost Space on Church
Bert Archer has a new smart blog. He recently posted about the closing of the venerable Second Cup at Church and Wellesley – until recently home to...
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Generating An Alternative Night-Time Mobility
Saturday, July 16th @ 10:00PM Meeting points @ Mercer Union (37 Lisgar Street) and Front Street, in front of Union Station Explore Toronto’s public...
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Get to know the city this weekend
This weekend there are a number of excellent public space related events that are worth checking out. 1. Sorauren Park Summer Festival. Saturday. Spacing...
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Bikes and feet
Christopher Hume had an outpouring of response to his recent column on the state of walking in Toronto. He mainly focused his derision on drivers, but...
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Extreme Subway Makeovers
Could drab, functional Museum station one day feel like an extension of the Royal Ontario Museum, with Greek columns in the place of its current...
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Viva York Region
Close to home: Viva – York Region’s new rapid transit system – is making the TTC look silly. Their busstops have ticket vending...
By Chris Hardwicke
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered