Urban Design
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ELECTION: Council Turnover – Ward 19
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 eight wards with...
By Nicole McIsaac -
Metric shuts down Front Street
On Wednesday night, Samsung Mobile presented a free Metric concert in front of Union Station on front Street that was intended to be kept secret, and...
By Nicole McIsaac -
SPACING RADIO: Smitherman talks walking, while walking
LISTEN TO THIS SPACING RADIO PODCAST George Smitherman loves to walk. Earlier this week, in fact, he walked along Eglinton — all the way across Toronto. I...
By Todd Harrison -
VIDEO: Nothing is higher than an architect
If you live in a place without air conditioning than you can relate to my current plight: the heat wave is making it difficult for me to sleep at night...
By Matthew Blackett -
Cities for People — Toronto Port Lands
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class is about)...
By Cities for People -
MuchMusic’s big downtown campout
In a clear case of hero worship gone haywire, hundreds of people are presently camped out on sidewalks surrounding MuchMusic’s headquarters at Queen and...
By Todd Harrison -
The diplomacy and politics of biking in Toronto
The following is a reprint of my recent psychogeography column in Eye Weekly on cycling in Toronto. As columns go, it was near the top in terms of the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Complete Streets: How to build them
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part two of a two-part series on Complete Streets. Check out Hilary’s first post from May 23, 2010. If we want...
By Hilary Best -
Complete Streets: What they are and why we need them
Conversations about the architecture of Toronto’s streets tend to be terribly divisive. You’re either a cyclist or a driver. A transit user or a...
By Hilary Best -
Metrolinx releases revised transit timetable
At the Toronto Board of Trade yesterday, Metrolinx Chair Robert Pritchard officially announced the revised timetable for construction of the Transit City...
By Sean Marshall -
Tonight! Take a Stroll with Shawn
UPDATE: Coach House Books will be selling copies of the infamous 1975 “CN Tower Fall Zone” poster that we wrote about in 2006. WHAT: Launch of...
By Matthew Blackett -
EVENT: NFB turns camera on Toronto’s high-rises
The following is a reprint of my recent Psychogeography column in Eye Weekly on the NFB’s Highrise project. This spring, the participants of The...
By Shawn Micallef