Streetscape
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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 -
New stadium, new space
The University of Toronto’s new, very simple Varsity Stadium at Bloor W. and Bedford has been criticized for not contributing to this rapidly...
By Dylan Reid -
Community Garden Paves Way for “Improvements”?
So-called “Bloorcourt Village” residents were startled to see the former Concord Avenue Community Gardens south of Bloor suddenly more barren...
By Liz Clayton -
Toronto pedestrians may get to scramble
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=BmAe-OjtX6o[/youtube] It seems Toronto is starting to think like a global city, at least when it comes to pedestrians...
By Matthew Blackett -
New York’s naked streets, Pt. II
NEW YORK — An update on the 9th Avenue and 14th Street woonerf: The city has now installed a series of planters, café tables and chairs...
By Joseph Clement