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  • What are we scared of?

    We love Christopher Hume. He is a valiant defender of the public realm. Sometimes he gets so excited about his cause that his writing becomes frenetic...

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  • NOW takes on smog

    Last week NOW ran an article on the top 10 things Toronto can do to fight smog in the city. The ideas may be unrealistic in the current political climate...

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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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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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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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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