Urban Design
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Headspace: The Fort York Pedestrian Cycle Bridge
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 -
Stories from the Big Apple: In Fine Company
If there’s any takeaway from the recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers report ranking Toronto second behind New York City for the world’s best city for finance...
By Jake Schabas -
Spacing Radio returns! Listen to Summer Shorts 001
GO LISTEN TO THE NEW SPACING RADIO PODCAST! Spacing Radio is back — just in smaller doses! We’re calling our new format Spacing Shorts. This means...
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On Bicycle Boulevards in Toronto
There is a spectre haunting the streets of Toronto — the spectre of separated bike lanes. Okay, perhaps it’s not quite that dramatic, but being a...
By Jake Tobin Garrett -
Toronto’s Next Steps on Complete Streets
At this year’s fourth annual Complete Streets Forum, Eva Ligeti, Executive Director of the Clean Air Partnership, emphasized that “the continued business...
By Hilary Best -
Headspace: Jane Farrow discusses Jane’s Walk
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 -
Complete Streets: An Interview with TCAT’s Nancy Smith Lea
It’s been a big year for Toronto’s streets. The good: Bixi is set to launch on May 3rd and Jarvis received a new bike lane. The not so good: we’ve seen...
By Hilary Best -
The Myth of the Cyclist as Urban Warrior
Hell hath no fury like a biker scorned. The New Yorker’s John Cassidy learned this the hard way after his blog post, “Battle of the Bike...
By Jake Tobin Garrett -
LORINC: Subways in the suburbs, a contrarian view
Between 1954 and 1980, Toronto built two subway lines with 62 stations and 55 km of track. Between 1980 and 2018, by which time the Spadina extension to...
By John Lorinc -
HEADSPACE: Architect Michael McClelland discusses Heritage Preservation
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: Will Alsop, subways and context
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I’m happy to see that the Toronto Star has stirred up some debate about...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Lost Villages: West Hill
West Hill and its neighbouring “lost” village, Highland Creek (featured two weeks ago) share a common early history. Both villages were...
By Sean Marshall