Urban Design
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STREET SCENE: Take Them To Mel Lastman Square
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
Learning from Minneapolis
When one thinks about cycling friendly cities in the United States, it’s cities like Portland or perhaps New York, with its recent high-profile bike...
By Jake Tobin Garrett -
Public Health and Downtown Traffic
Mercifully, Toronto has so far been spared the smog days which have defined summers of the past. This respite from smog days however belies the true...
By Marcus Bowman -
Lost Villages: Erindale
Grange Homestead, Erindale, Mississauga The latest installment in the intermittent “Lost Villages” series takes us west on Dundas Street from...
By Sean Marshall -
Lost Villages: Cooksville
Modern condo towers in Mississauga City Centre and traffic on Hurontario Street overwhelm old Cooksville In 1794, one year after the founding of York...
By Sean Marshall -
Church Street and Pride don’t matter anymore? Listen to some [murmur]s that suggest otherwise.
It’s been an interesting few weeks for Pride and Church Street. An article in The Grid that used a small and isolated hipster perspective to declare...
By Shawn Micallef -
LORINC: The potential locked up in Pecaut Square
Earlier this year, Mayor Rob Ford re-dedicated the interstitial space next to Metro Hall as David Pecaut Square — a classy tribute to a classy guy, whose...
By John Lorinc -
Headspace: John Campbell discusses Toronto’s waterfront
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 -
The top 25 walking intersections in Toronto
We finally have a map of where and how much we walk in Toronto. As part of Global’s story this week on the most dangerous intersections for...
By Dylan Reid -
The most dangerous intersections for pedestrians in Toronto
The 100 most dangerous intersections for pedestrians in Toronto. The larger the dot, the greater the danger. Yesterday, Global News released a map by...
By Dylan Reid -
StrollCity wants your tweets on Toronto subway screens
Yesterday a new edition of the StrollCity project began. Much of my day is spent on a computer, but Twitter let me keep an eye on what’s going on in...
By Shawn Micallef -
Headspace: Tim Jones, Artscape
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