Pandemic
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REID: Examples of east side gentle density
One of the things I started looking out for on my local walks during the our locked-down pandemic spring (in addition to former corner stores) was...
By Dylan Reid -
COVID RECOVERY: Timid bus priority plan in Toronto needs to be bigger & bolder
This week, the Executive Committee of Toronto City Council is considering a motion to prioritize public transit on select roadways through the...
By Tricia Wood -
How COVID-19 can catalyze coordination in Greater Toronto
By André Côté, Gabriel Eidelman, and Michael Fenn. The reopening in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the recovery planning to come, represent an...
By Gabriel Eidelman -
Our resilience will be measured by the strength of our civic spaces
COVID-19 has called the value of cities into question. But cities are not the problem. Even as the COVID-19 curve flattens, we stare into the gaping holes...
By Orit Sarfaty -
Queerness and queer space in the time of COVID-19
Marquis is a queer young man living in the City of Brampton who enjoys commuting into the City of Toronto, where he attends classes at Ryerson University...
By Benjamin Bongolan and Jc Elijah M. Bawuah -
LORINC: The pandemic is sacrificing community spaces in places of faith
The long-awaited partial re-opening, which finally began in Toronto and Peel earlier this week, is a story with two aspects: on the one hand, a reunion...
By John Lorinc -
REID: The beginning of the end for rush hour curb lanes?
One of the distinctive and ubiquitous characteristics of main streets in the older parts of Toronto is the rush hour curb lane. For two or four hours a...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: The pandemic is about cities
Viruses, in the abstract, don’t care much about their host organisms, beyond the latter’s on-board, physiological defenses. Yet it’s clear the coronavirus...
By John Lorinc -
Five organizations come together to produce a community map of Toronto “safeways”
In a great display of community collaboration, five Toronto-based organizations dedicated to improving and enhancing the city’s public realm have come...
By Ken Greenberg -
Post-pandemic economic recovery requires strong public transit
The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a...
By Tricia Wood -
BRADFORD OP-ED: Bike lanes are the path to main street recovery on the Danforth and across the city
Toronto has approved the installation of 40 kilometres of cycling infrastructure across the city, including a significant portion along Danforth Avenue...
By Brad Bradford -
COVID-19 pushing homeless into encampments
According to a 2018 Toronto Street Needs Assessment, there were 533 “rough sleepers” in Toronto — that is to say, those homeless Torontonians...
By John Clapp