Urban Design
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Garden of Future Follies – An Interview with Hadley+Maxwell
Interview by: Melanie Fasche Hadley+Maxwell are a Canadian artist duo formed in Vancouver in 1997 and now based in Berlin. Their body of work includes...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Art in Transit
By Laura Berazadi In Canada, the first integrated public art program was established in 1961 when the Province of Quebec introduced its Art in...
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Brampton’s Etobicoke Creek: floods, concrete, and new public spaces
The City of Brampton — Canada’s ninth largest municipality — was founded as a small community in the mid-19th century, as the interior of Southern...
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Creating places for people as we grow
As municipalities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe shift from building sprawling single-family housing neighbourhoods to denser neighbourhoods filled with...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Going Public
By: Brandon Vickerd A while ago I was presenting a lecture in a first year course at York University that is intended to introduce the next generation of...
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5 Things to know about Heritage Toronto Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2016 Heritage Toronto Awards. Michael Kushnir, development and marketing coordinator for Heritage Toronto, discusses the...
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Book Review – How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
Walking was the primary way that people got around cities from the time cities first emerged until the 20th century. But, argues Joan DeJean in her book...
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The “great monster of death” arrives in Toronto
Lenton Williams worked in the printing department at Eaton’s department store. On the evening of June 14, 1905, the 60-year-old was jogging south along...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Contact at 20 — An interview with Bonnie Rubenstein
Interview by: Ilana Altman & Melanie Fasche Bonnie Rubenstein has been a director at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival since 2002 and is...
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LORINC: What Toronto can learn from street fighter Janette Sadik-Khan
Toronto has only one short and unflattering walk-on part in Janette Sadik Khan’s fascinating account of her experiences as the crusading transportation...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Urban Confrontations — an interview with Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins
Interview by: Ilana Altman Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have been making large-format sculpture, mixed media, installation and electronic art since...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: The Legacy of the Toronto Sculpture Garden
By: Rina Greer For over thirty years, the Toronto Sculpture Garden was the site of innovative, temporary, contemporary sculpture installations. This...
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