Streetscape
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Mexico’s Messy Urbanism
Mexico City is a huge megalopolis of 20 million people, all crowded into a plateau surrounded by volcanic mountains. In many ways, Mexico has the same...
By Sean Marshall -
Jarvis Street transformation project — consultations
The City of Toronto is undertaking a major project to improve Jarvis Street — once a beautiful avenue of mansions, but now a rather unappealing...
By Dylan Reid -
Will a ‘strong’ mayor hold up bikes?
The City of Toronto Official Plan envisions a city where active transportation helps to relieve congestion and improve air quality. Yet, right now less...
By Tammy Thorne -
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