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Urban Planet: Seasteading – Floating Tech Cities
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
A shift to transit: Either with grace or through crisis
After months of polarizing debates regarding the future of transit in Toronto, many citizens are not used calm, consensus-building discussions. But that...
By Daniel Viola -
LRT Today: A New Jersey transit state of mind
In the wake of city council’s decision to continue to build-out Toronto’s LRT plans — and since Mayor Rob Ford continues to mistakenly call...
By Grant Davis -
FOOD: Recipes for community hubs pt. 1
Editor’s note: In our Fall 2011 issue, “Hungry City”, Liz Clayton and Sean Waisglass took a look at neighbourhood coffee shops and...
By Allie Hunwicks -
The Official Plan Review
Toronto is undertaking a review of its Official Plan. The Plan was adopted by City Council in 2002, but it didn’t come into force until 2006 after...
By Dylan Reid -
Park(ing) Day!
Today, Friday, September 16th, is PARK(ing) Day! In cities around the globe, artists, activists and citizens will transform metered parking spaces into...
By Hilary Best -
150 years of Toronto’s streetcars
Image from Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 3363. Single-horse Seaton Village car, 1890. Ten days ago, on September 1, the Toronto Transit...
By Sean Marshall -
World Wide Wednesday: Container markets, miniature cities, all-door boarding
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
LORINC: Maybe it doesn’t get better
There’s an arresting scene near the end of Milk, the superb biopic about San Francisco supervisor and gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk, in which Sean Penn...
By John Lorinc -
World Wide Wednesday: Pothole gardens and nuclear architecture
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
World Wide Wednesday: High speed rail, transit journeys and blue urbanism
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
World Wide Wednesday: Conversation Cars, Phantom Highways and City Love Songs
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best