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  • Expo 2015 Consultation

    “Once every five years a city gets the opportunity to step onto the world stage and become a focal point of international attention and achievement...

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  • Planning for bikes

    Yesterday in Toronto, the Bikeway Planning and Development Workshop was held at Ontario Place gathering 30 municipal planners and transportation planners...

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  • Welcome In My Back Yard

    Catherine Porter considers the power of Nimbyism in today’s Toronto Star. It’s about time Toronto learned to love itself and the complexities...

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  • The city’s tax straightjacket

    Royson James wrote an interesting explanation of Toronto’s confusing property tax system today, as property owners across the city received their...

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  • Tar Babies

    Last weekend I visited the ancestral suburban split-level homestead in dear Windsor, Ontario for Thanksgiving. There is no public transportation there...

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  • The Toronto Effect

    According to the Star today: Toronto is becoming more architecturally diverse and denser which is helping some people give up their cars with the added...

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  • Private money in public infrastructure

    Christopher Hume, in the Star today, writes about the need for the private sector to invest in building Toronto’s future infrastructure. I’m...

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  • Squabble on the waterfront

    As usual, whenever there is talk about Toronto’s waterfront, sniping and mixed messages are sure to follow. In the Toronto Star today, Christopher...

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  • Spacing reports from Winnipeg

    I’m out in Winnipeg leading a workshop on magazine design for Spacing‘s national distributor Magazines Canada. I’ve only been here a...

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  • Take the Tooker

    With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...

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  • Hot St. Lawrence Design Porn

    The good folks at the City of Toronto Planning Department have released a wonderful document on Urban Design Guidelines in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood...

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  • SPACING EVENT: City Club of Toronto?

    The City Club of Toronto? Ideas and Experiences from Portland Spacing invites you out to an event we are helping organize promote. TONIGHT! • Innis...

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