Urban Design
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Meeting on the fate of the Gardiner & Street Design
Thursday August 11, 2005 starting at 6:30 Location: 115 the Esplanade (near Church St.) East meeting room, ring bell 6:30pm: street design 7:30pm: the...
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Sim City comes to life
From Boy Reporter Ron Nurwisah: Remember Sim City, the wildly popular game that let you be your own Robert Moses (or Jane Jacobs), constructing cities...
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Suburban homelessness
In the Toronto Star today: “As houses sprout like dandelions in new subdivisions all over the suburban GTA, the regions around Toronto have the look...
By Matthew Blackett -
Best Public Spaces in the World
The Project for Public Spaces, a non-profit out of NYC that helps communities and cities build smart public spaces, has an interesting feature on their...
By Matthew Blackett -
Public Office Space
The Globe and Mail has a rare article about the increased demand for better office space including bicycle amenities, better food and public-private...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Public space Saturday
The Globe and Mail had a bunch of interesting articles today. The first article was about the number of stray cats running around in our alleys. Some say...
By Matthew Blackett -
This just in: Gridlock is Bad
John Tory just announced the Ontario Conservative initiative to solve our Gridlock problem. They’ve set up this website, as a place where you can...
By Shawn Micallef -
Book launch tonight!
Our friends at the Toronto Public Space Committee are presenting a book launch tonight starting at 7:30pm at the Victory Cafe (on Markham, a block west of...
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Slow Street Movement
The Toronto Star has two articles about pedestrians today. Slow streets, safer driving? looks at Eric Dumbaugh’s study: “Safe Streets, Livable...
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Scared of heights
Two articles in today’s Globe and Mail have contrasting arguments about tall buildings in Toronto and their relationship to public space. John...
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What to do with Scarborough RT
There is some real concern about what is going to happen to the aging Scarborough Rapid Transit line. It was built with unique and not-widely used...
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Does Toronto need a design review panel?
John Sewell wrote a column in Eye this week on Toronto’s desire to implement a design review panel for architecture and urban design. There are many...
By Matthew Blackett