Politics
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Trashing EUCAN bins
Toronto Star columnist Slinger wrote a great piece ripping apart the EUCAN monster garbage bins. And he didn’t stop the blame game there — he...
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Slow Street Movement
The Toronto Star has two articles about pedestrians today. Slow streets, safer driving? looks at Eric Dumbaugh’s study: “Safe Streets, Livable...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Scared of heights
Two articles in today’s Globe and Mail have contrasting arguments about tall buildings in Toronto and their relationship to public space. John...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Garbage on our streets
Christopher Hume trashes Eucan’s Monster Garbage cans in today’s Toronto Star: The path to civic greatness is littered with wannabe cities...
By Chris Hardwicke -
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)...
By Matthew Blackett -
Great idea, wrong funding model
Could this be a Toronto bus stop? (image is from London’s transit system) Howard Moscoe, TTC Chair, has put forth a great idea — install a...
By Matthew Blackett -
Flying the Blue Flag
In the last two weeks, both Eye and NOW have covered the Blue Flag project going on at some of Toronto’s beaches. Spacing editor Dale Duncan also...
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Dundas Square – worst of both worlds
The City of Toronto has agreed to start paying the operating costs of Dundas Square – including those security guards – but the space is still...
By Dylan Reid -
Designing Toronto’s Streets
The city of Toronto is currently engaged in setting design standards for new local residential streets in Toronto (not main streets). They are conducting...
By Dylan Reid