Urban Design
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Rock & Roll Urbanism: The Pretenders & My City Was Gone
With the Empress Hotel fire on Yonge Street last week our thoughts have been turned to the city’s built form and how to better preserve the worthy...
By Shawn Micallef -
NO MEAN CITY: Designs on a downtown park
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture This year, the redesign of downtown Toronto’s John Street into a...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Lost Villages: Highland Creek and Danforth Road
The Morrish General Store at Kingston Road and Meadowvale; now the home of the Scarborough Historical Society At the dawn of the 19th century, a road was...
By Sean Marshall -
Lost villages: Mount Pleasant
In northwest Brampton, at the junction of Bovaird Drive (formerly Highway 7), Creditview Road (3rd Line East), and the CN Halton Subdivision/GO Georgetown...
By Sean Marshall -
Is Tower Renewal rising again?
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Good news: Tower Renewal may be getting new life. With a new report, Tower...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Lost villages: Barbertown
After a lengthy hiatus, I bring you the latest installment in my occasional series on the “lost villages” of the Greater Toronto Area...
By Sean Marshall -
Building a better intersection for pedestrians
I recently came across an interesting proposal to improve the safety of pedestrians at busy intersections. Korean designer Jae Min Lim studied the routes...
By Matthew Blackett -
The future of Tower Renewal
The Tower Neighbourhood Renewal plan (aka Mayor’s Tower Renewal) is an ambitious initiative with great potential to increase the quality of life of...
By Adrian Lightstone -
Head Space: Christina Zeidler, YIMBY festival organizer
This new, regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become...
By Luca De Franco -
The peep shows of construction sites
Yes, they are small portholes into a normally mysterious underworld. But no, that’s not human flesh on the other side of those walls. Instead, what one...
By Fred Sztabinski -
ELECTION: Some election number-crunching
There’s been quite a bit of number-crunching of the results of Toronto’s municipal election in both the paper media (see Headlines below) and...
By Dylan Reid -
ELECTION: Council Turnover – Ward 18
It’s not often that candidates for City Council are given the opportunity to run without an incumbent in the ward. This year there are nine wards with...
By Nicole McIsaac