Urban Design
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Headspace: Katerina Cizek discusses Tower Renewal
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
NO MEAN CITY: A RAD condo renovation
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Welcome to the age of the fixer-upper condo, the older apartment that needs...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Beyond Speedbumps: other ways to calm traffic on residential streets
Last fall, I went on a community walk in Rivertowne, a new development north-west of Queen E. and Broadview that combines public and market townhouses...
By Dylan Reid -
Urban Planet: Extending the Lives of Bridges
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 -
Is there Planning Law or just City Politics?
I live-blogged an interesting conference last week at the University of Toronto Law School called “Is there Planning Law or just City...
By Dylan Reid -
Is there Planning Law or just City Politics?
This Friday (Jan. 13), the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is hosting an all-day Conference on Municipalities and Land Use Planning, “Is there...
By Dylan Reid -
NO MEAN CITY: The architecture of health
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture There’s an interesting panel discussion coming up on Thursday at U of...
By Alex Bozikovic -
NO MEAN CITY: The waterfront and the generic city
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I haven’t touched on the waterfront very often this year (I was busy elsewhere...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Smart Growth 1966, or “plus ca change …”
Here’s a quote from “Proposals for a New Plan for Toronto”, published in 1966 for public discussion at the Toronto Planning Board. A...
By Dylan Reid -
NO MEAN CITY: Is Toronto climbing, collapsing or both?
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Recently I met with an American magazine editor who was in town for a...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Fourth Wall: Communicating with the public
This series features highlights from the ongoing exhibit The Fourth Wall: Transforming City Hall. The exhibit, on now at the Urbanspace Gallery, considers...
By Hilary Best -
City won’t put a sidewalk on a route to school
A local resident recently brought my attention to an impending decision by the City of Toronto to not add a sidewalk to Chine Drive, a local road in...
By Dylan Reid