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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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  • King-Spadina Area Plan Review

    Last night, I attended a very interesting presentation/workshop about a review of the city’s “secondary plan” (the detailed urban...

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  • What do YOU do on the beach?

    On Saturday, June 8, the Toronto Waterfront Revitilization Corporation wants to know what citizens want to do at Lake Ontario Park, the new park planned...

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