Urban Design
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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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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...
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Community transformation examples
The Sierra Club has an interesting feature on its website which allows you to flip through images of reimagined intersections in suburban sprawl areas...
By Matthew Blackett -
The High Cost of Free Parking
Terrence Belford writes a rather one-sided article about Toronto’s impending parking crisis in the Globe. What is bad news to the Globe: That is the...
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Road construction halted
Last month, housing developers unearthed a native burial ground while widening a road north of Canada’s Wonderland. What is worse, York Region...
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Sewell on street signs
John Sewell writes in Eye this week about the erection of the re-designed street signs. Over the past year he has had a very difficult time getting City...
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York Region’s VIVA
The Toronto Star had some great coverage of York Region’s new VIVA transit system in the Saturday paper. Reading it online is fine, but the two page...
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Plant seeds not bullets
The Toronto Star has a good news story about urban farming in the Jane-Finch neighbourhood. Run by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority the urban...
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Paris artists need your help
We know this happens all over the world but we still wanted to bring your attention to it: A group of artists in Paris have taken over a big, abandoned...
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Changing tides of Chinatown
From the Toronto Star today: “Community leaders believe two seemingly contradictory goals — clinging to tradition and more savvy marketing...
By Matthew Blackett