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LORINC: Which transit projects should be built first?
If you’re ever in the market for a choice example of bureaucratic obfuscation, look no further than the following section in the slightly amended version...
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Fife and Drum: The day the fort was saved from streetcars
The latest edition of Fife and Drum, the quarterly newsletter produced by the Friends of Fort York, was recently released. As always it’s filled with...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: The Legacy of the Toronto Sculpture Garden
By: Rina Greer For over thirty years, the Toronto Sculpture Garden was the site of innovative, temporary, contemporary sculpture installations. This...
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Rob Ford, 1969-2016: A legacy he never intended
If I have to alight on one incident of surpassing significance amidst the mayhem of Rob Ford’s mayoralty, I find myself bypassing the chaos of the scrums...
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A history of developers and holdouts in Toronto
When the Imperial Oil company began assembling land for its new executive offices on St. Clair Ave. W. in 1952, it didn’t reckon on tangling with...
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LORINC: waiting for the other shoe to drop on inclusionary zoning
In what seemed like one in a series of tactical policy announcements meant to burnish their progressive bone fides, Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals last week...
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MESLIN: Digital megaboard proposed for West Don park corridor
UPDATE: 68 letters were sent to the Committee, in opposition to the billboard proposal (you can read them all, at the bottom of this page). Rather than...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: On the Waterfront, building public art collections in Toronto’s newest neighbourhoods
By: Rebecca Carbin Previous articles in The Artful City series provide a thorough overview of Toronto’s approach to commissioning public art. In recent...
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Not In My Front Yard: The controversy of installing sidewalks
McNicoll Avenue at Boxdene Avenue. There’s no sidewalk on the south side of this busy Scarborough road. It might come as a surprise that nearly 25...
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LORINC: Transit relief is long way down the road
If you have kids or once were one, you may have recognized the tactic that York Region’s politicians attempted last week when they scurried off to Ottawa...
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Toronto’s Art Deco legacy celebrated
Facing each other across Spadina Avenue just north of Adelaide, the Tower and Balfour Buildings frame a striking entryway into Toronto’s Fashion District...
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How Exhibition Place got the retro Dufferin Gate
You can tell a lot about a place by how it greets its visitors. The goofy lights at Honest Ed’s tell customers “there’s no place like...
By Chris Bateman
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered