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REID: Is there (sometimes) induced demand in housing?
A recent study divided U.S. cities into “expensive” and “expansive” categories when it comes to housing. The high cost of housing...
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LORINC: The Attack of the Killer Revenue Tools
There was a wonderfully revealing moment at yesterday’s executive committee meeting, when Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace got into it with...
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Brampton’s Etobicoke Creek: floods, concrete, and new public spaces
The City of Brampton — Canada’s ninth largest municipality — was founded as a small community in the mid-19th century, as the interior of Southern...
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Does Toronto hate marathons?
Toronto loves its sports teams; just head down to the square in front of the Air Canada Centre, or Nathan Phillips Square around playoff time for proof of...
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“Canstruction” delivers big for Toronto’s food banks
I’m standing in front of a large pile of yellow cans of fruit — cherries, peaches, fruit salad — that has been designed and shaped to look like something...
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LORINC: A Trip Advisor for rental apartments?
When the members of the Municipal Licensing and Standards committee meet tomorrow at City Hall, they’ll be considering the latest attempt to license the...
By John Lorinc -
Creating places for people as we grow
As municipalities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe shift from building sprawling single-family housing neighbourhoods to denser neighbourhoods filled with...
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The Don Mills Safety Village taught kids to drive
1962 was a rough year for kids. In the 12 months between January and December, 20 young people under the age of 14 were killed on Toronto’s streets...
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LORINC: Why Toronto needs to use open data to improve apartment safety
When I went on Kijiji Thursday morning, I quickly found the following listing: a basement apartment in a bungalow for $515 a month, to share with two...
By John Lorinc -
THE ARTFUL CITY: Going Public
By: Brandon Vickerd A while ago I was presenting a lecture in a first year course at York University that is intended to introduce the next generation of...
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Top 5 reasons to roll out the Bike Plan as soon as possible
A cross-post from Cycle Toronto Since 2014, we’ve been calling on City Council to build a city-wide Minimum Grid of 100km of protected bike lanes...
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From folk singers to folklore, 1960s Yorkville lingers
With Canadian Music Week taking place just in clubs throughout Toronto, the historic Masonic Temple concert hall on Yonge Street — which has hosted the...
By Kieran Delamont
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered