Urban Design
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Negotiating neighbourhoods
John Lorinc writes about Section 37 in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. The term refers to part of the Planning Act that allows the city and developers...
By Dale Duncan -
Hume’s Stockholm Syndrome II
Christopher Hume is on a Stockholm kick. Today in the Toronto Star he writes about Hammarby Sjostad, a waterfront community built over the last decade on...
By Matthew Blackett -
condo BOOM! opens next week
From September 21 to 30, The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West) will be hosting condo BOOM!, an exhibit that aims to explore “the marketing...
By Laura Hatcher -
Vancouver and Victoria public spaces
Andy Reeves will be covering ad creep and streetscape issues during the 2006 election for the Spacing Votes blog. Here’s a report by Reeves from his...
By Spacing -
Queen and Portland
The large parking lot at Portland between Queen West and Richmond is one of the last major undeveloped sections of Queen Street West, and as such holds...
By Dylan Reid -
Building Neighbourhoods along with Subways
Urban consultant and former councillor Richard Gilbert has a very interesting op-ed in the Star today arguing that each of the proposed new subway...
By Dylan Reid -
The Lakeshore Median: Parkland or Parking?
There’s an article in the Globe and Mail today about the debate concerning parking for the newly restored Palais Royale. A plan is in place to put...
By Ian Malczewski -
Friday’s headlines
• Who said cops are lazy? Well, a Toronto Star reader did and asked the Fixer why, after nine years of amalgamation, the Toronto Police HQ on College...
By Matthew Blackett -
Three people don’t make it “mixed reviews”
The Star has an article today about the Queen’s Quay pedestrian/bike lane experiment. They had quotes from three residents who didn’t seem...
By Matthew Blackett -
A New Solar Power
What if every window in the financial district could be transformed into a translucent solar power generator, powering anything from the lights to the...
By Ian Malczewski -
We tear down the good to erect the bad
Toronto skyline, 1931 Christopher Hume had an excellent piece in the Star yesterday. His opening three paragraphs are a reminder of what we’ve let...
By Matthew Blackett -
Cool Mist in Qatar
As gas prices rise Toronto’s transit and cycling infrastructure is under attack. First it was the bike rings now it is the transit shelters...
By Chris Hardwicke