Urban Design
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EVENT: Architect Burton Hamfelt on “the Urbanization of Architecture”
WHAT: bulthaup Lecture at the University of Toronto WHEN: Tuesday, October 9 WHERE: The Daniels Faculty, 230 College Street, Room 103 Next week, architect...
By Dale Duncan -
NO MEAN CITY: Frank Gehry on King West – some first thoughts
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Frank Gehry refers to Toronto as his hometown. Yes, he left here over 60...
By Alex Bozikovic -
NO MEAN CITY Oakville Transit’s sleek Pit Stop
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture A changeroom and lunchroom for bus drivers. That is the very prosaic program of...
By Alex Bozikovic -
NO MEAN CITY: In The Globe and Mail – John Shnier’s unorthodox condo
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture In The Globe recently I had a story on an unusual condo: the home of architect...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Headspace VIDEO: Kristyn Wong-Tam discusses Yonge Street
Kristyn Wong-Tam is city councillor for ward 27 in Toronto. A vocal champion of walking, the public realm and shared streets, Councillor Wong-Tam, in...
By Luca De Franco -
Community activism not enough to deviate Toronto flight paths
Sheryl Herle awakes at 3 a.m. to a loud, drowning sound of something flying overhead her house. Her two children are sleeping, and she has to be up at 6...
By Amber Daugherty -
Instaflaneur: Inflation is garbage in Scarborough
A weekend wander in Scarborough turned up this ancient sign, representing a municipality that no longer exists. It appears that back in the good old...
By Shawn Micallef -
Lost Villages: L’Amoreaux
The farming hamlet of L’Amoreaux, which straddled the border between the newly surveyed York and Scarborough Townships was settled in 1816...
By Sean Marshall -
Proposed changes to make Dundas and Sterling intersection safer for cyclists
Months after a tragic accident at the intersection of Dundas Street West and Sterling Road, community members of Ward 18 are talking about ways to make...
By Amber Daugherty -
Humanizing traffic counts at Toronto intersections
Humanizing and humanely utilizing the endless stream of data coming out of cities may be a 21st century urban planner’s greatest challenge. Eyes on...
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LORINC: What should be on the new chief planner’s to-do list
Progressive Toronto was feeling pretty darn good about its collective self last week when the City revealed it would be hiring the poised planning...
By John Lorinc -
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef one of this year’s TEDxToronto speakers
A partial list of speakers for this year’s TEDxToronto conference was released yesterday and includes our Senior Editor Shawn Micallef along with...
By Spacing