Urban Design
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New garbage bins and newspaper boxes on T.O.’s streets
It must be summer vacation at One Yonge Street because the Star is reporting today on the death of the MegaBins (Spacing reported this development back on...
By Matthew Blackett -
The March of the condos
Donovan Vincent writes about new condo towers soon to pop up on Toronto’s railway lands in the GTA section of yesterday’s Toronto Star. Two...
By Dale Duncan -
BBC Radio: “Making Cities Work”
BBC World Service radio has an interesting series called “Making Cities Work“, available for listening in streaming or downloadable formats...
By Dylan Reid -
Skateboards and falcons
As Dylan Reid posted a few days ago, there is a bit of a community uproar in Etobicoke’s New Toronto neighbourhood. It seems residents don’t...
By Matthew Blackett -
Oh Canada
Dominion Day Weekend was spent in dear Windsor, a most American of a hometown that tends to hide in cars and behind air-conditioned walls to escape the...
By Shawn Micallef -
The new suburbia
Robert Ouellette, the editor of Reading Toronto, also writes for the National Post and had a good article in yesterday’s paper about the development...
By Matthew Blackett -
Waterfront Waves
There are a few items of interest in the Star today about the Waterfront. Mayor Miller is in Paris this week to begin the city’s bid, which, if...
By Ian Malczewski -
Toronto, measured in feet
Nicholas Hune-Brown and J. Graham Lee write in the Toronto Star about measuring the space of the city and its sprawl by walking across it. Should be a...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Vancouver takes on the World
As a tribute to the UN Habitat World Urban Forum taking place in Vancouver this week, Vancouver weekly The Georgia Straight dedicated many of its pages to...
By Laura Hatcher -
Sprawl from Space
 Two University of Toronto profs and some others have studied the spread of urban sprawl in the late 20th century by creating composite satellite maps of...
By Dylan Reid -
Distillery is anti-franchise, the airport LINK, and small town efficiency
All articles are from today’s Toronto Star. Distillery avoids sameness: from Chistopher Hume today…. For most visitors, the Distillery...
By Matthew Blackett -
Cityspace
For the first time in human history more people live in the world’s cities than in the country. CBC radio has created a website dedicated to citiesÂ...
By Chris Hardwicke