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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • Headlines worth following

    Here are a few headlines worth following today, and I’d love to hear your comments about: The City of Toronto Act: the new law passed yesterday at...

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  • Green the ‘burbs

    Hume in the Star today (click here for full article): So far, builders, especially suburban builders, have blithely ignored the consequence of what they...

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  • Pigeon Condo Talks

    This is last minute, for today’s talk, but we’ll pretend everybody is reading this on a Blackberry or Palm Treo while moving around the city...

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