Urban Design
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Moonwalking Dundas Square
Moonwalkers from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo. When Michael Jackson’s death was announced, I never gave any thought to the possibility that Spacing would...
By Matthew Blackett -
Dept. of funny infrastructure: Eglinton @ Allen Road
One of the few pieces of cycling infrastructure that the City of Toronto has introduced in the past decade are white dots painted at semi-actuated...
By Sean Marshall -
Development signs of the times
Back in July 2008, I bemoaned the City of Toronto’s lack of decent signage for public notices related to development applications. Having spent a...
By Matthew Blackett -
Entertainment District’s Master Plan
This morning, the Toronto Entertainment District BIA unveiled their “Master Plan†to redevelop much of the downtown core. From Queen to the Gardiner...
By Shaun Merritt -
Townsend: Ontario’s phantom town
You have probably heard of ghost towns – once vibrant communities that slowly disappeared as local fortunes changed, or quickly abandoned due to...
By Sean Marshall -
Yonge and Bloor square revisited by Hume
Back in February, I was wandering through the construction site known as the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor. I made a quick post about the...
By Matthew Blackett -
All aboard the Committee of Adjustment
The City of Toronto Committee of Adjustment is one of those obscure appointed boards that actually has a big impact on the city. It decides whether...
By Dylan Reid -
World Wide Wednesday: Lessons from Seoul’s river expressway
Last week, with the Jarvis Street lane reduction still front and centre, we looked at the big strides New York is taking in increasing its bicycling...
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John Lorinc examines Jan Gehl’s one stone-five birds strategy
With a winking apology to the ornithology set, the renowned Danish architect Jan Gehl last week laid out his “one stone-five birds†strategy for a...
By John Lorinc -
Brampton’s Urban Frontier: Countryside Drive
In my hometown of Brampton, suburban development has continued to erode the old country landscape that even up to about 20 years ago, made up most of the...
By Sean Marshall -
World Wide Wednesday: NYC for bikes and pedestrians
This week we thought it might be fun to look a little into another city supposedly fighting a “war on the car.” Many of our previous posts...
By Jake Schabas -
Toronto conference on transforming and revitalizing downtowns
This morning, the Transforming and Revitalizing Downtown Summit kicked off at the Renaissance hotel in the Rogers Centre, a conference featuring many...
By Jake Schabas