Urban Design
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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...
By Dylan Reid -
Tar Babies
Last weekend I visited the ancestral suburban split-level homestead in dear Windsor, Ontario for Thanksgiving. There is no public transportation there...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Chris Hardwicke -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
Take the Tooker
With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...
By Chris Hardwicke -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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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Who’s Driving the City?
While London is installing solar powered lighting in its busstops and New York is putting thousands of new bus shelters, newsstands and, public washrooms...
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The Health Impacts of Sprawl
Our friends at the Ontario Smart Growth Network present a great little event that connects urban sprawl with the increasing obesity of North American...
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Skyscrapers of the world
Toronto is a weird place when it comes to tall buildings. We have the CN Tower, the world’s tallest free-standing structure in the world. But...
By Matthew Blackett