Urban Design
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Summerhill holiday lights and the development iceberg they’re attached to
Last year I wrote about the unique LED holiday lights that run along Yonge Street from Dundas Square up to Alexander Street. They’re back this year...
By Shawn Micallef -
Tree Tuesday: Horsechestnuts
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
By Shawn Micallef -
Outside perspective: Toronto grows tall
Back in October we published James Rojas’s mini-essay “Toronto’s Messy Urbanism from the perspective of an Angeleno,” his...
By Shawn Micallef -
Tree Tuesday: New townhomes
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
The Agenda: this week at City Hall
Toronto City Council has a heavy agenda [PDF] to get through at its meeting scheduled to run on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are highlights of some of the...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Growth of density in Toronto since 1971
[flv]http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/popdwell/maps/animations/CMAs/Toronto.swf[/flv] While I was catching up on Spacing Montreal posts...
By Matthew Blackett -
It was twenty-seven years ago today…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm68UteL0M[/youtube] …that John Lennon was killed in New York. There are many memorials to Lennon on YouTube...
By Shawn Micallef -
Stroll: Don Mills & photos from the Moccasin-Rainbow trail
This week’s stroll column in Eye Weekly had me wandering around Canada’s most famous suburb, Don Mills. I remember while growing up Don Mills...
By Shawn Micallef -
Lobbying for a Registry: Exhibit C
I didn’t intend for this to become a recurring feature but it seems Lobbying for a Registry may be just that — at least until there’s a...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
The GTTA is Now Metrolinx
The Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (or GTTA) has come up with a new marketing name and a new website. The new name is Metrolinx. The name and...
By Sean Marshall -
The Wild Queen West
For a while now I’ve been trying to wrap my head around exactly what the plans are for the Queen West Triangle. While the slew of developments...
By Duncan Patterson