Streetscape
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Toronto’s history in phone numbers
When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had...
By Matthew Blackett -
Dr. Soberman’s Virtual Street Tours
Earlier this afternoon, Steve Munro posted a long and scathing commentary on a study by the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario. The...
By Sean Marshall -
Tree Tuesday: The Narrowing of Gladstone
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
Site Unseen: Laneway Architecture & Urbanism in Toronto
Last Thursday’s post, Lost without laneways, garnered many requests for information regarding the suggested reading I posted at the end of the...
By Joseph Clement -
Nifty street infrastructure guide from Seattle
A colleague sent me a really useful web guide to the infrastructure elements in a pedestrian-friendly right-of-way (that is, the public part of a street...
By Dylan Reid -
Lost without laneways
NEW YORK – In my unending quest to find unpopulated laneways to stroll through, I’ve made an interesting discovery. There are none. Thanks to...
By Joseph Clement -
Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
By Shawn Micallef -
Trying a new streetscape on Cherry Street
There’s an interesting streetscape experiment in the works for Cherry St. between King and Lakeshore, part of the new West Donlands development...
By Dylan Reid -
Tree Tuesday: New townhomes
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
The Death and Life of Great Queen Street
Hot on the heels of the Fix the Queen Streetcar Forum, where the corpse of the once great 501 line was kicked around and administered the defibrillator...
By Shawn Micallef -
Ottawa is 1978
I took the train to Ottawa a few weeks ago, a city I’ve only visited on two other occasions (once to write a story about the G20 Summit in November...
By Shawn Micallef -
Greening parking lots
Surface parking lots are possibly the most problematic use of space in a city — their vast impervious surfaces create runoffs of polluted water...
By Dylan Reid