Waterfront
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Best of 2006: The Waterfront
2006 was a year of ups and downs for the Waterfront. We saw an innovative design competition announced for the Central Waterfront with a widely popular...
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City Hall sniping, TTC developments, and assorted links
CITY HALL articles: • Councillor decries secrecy of hydro pole deal [ Globe and Mail ] • Inside City Hall feature [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
By Matthew Blackett -
Best of 2006: bike lanes
It’s nearly impossible to pick a “best” bike lane for 2006 — I mean, 10 kilometres were added to the bikeway network last year...
By Tammy Thorne -
BARBER: Serious Land Dispute on Islands Brewing
John Barber’s column (registered users or Google News search) in The Globe & Mail today discusses the increasing volume of a voice that has been...
By Ian Malczewski -
Monday’s links to weekend articles
This is the best photo of Toronto I have seen in a long time. It was posted in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool and is making the rounds on the internet...
By Matthew Blackett -
Outer Space: public realm articles from around the world
St. Pancras in London, England, from The Guardian • The world’s most beautiful train stations [ The Guardian ] • San Diego’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
Soccer fields in the Port Lands — the continuing debate
A view from what will one day be called Lake Ontario Park. Thursday night, I went to the Port Lands Action Committee meeting to learn more about the...
By Dale Duncan -
Public spaces melting?
Ok, so it’s not exactly waterfront news, but there’s an article in today’s Star about the effects of global warming on Toronto’s...
By Ian Malczewski -
The fate of the Cherry Beach trees
Anyone interested in learning more about plans to build soccer fields on the contaminated, but forested, soils by Cherry Beach — and judging by the...
By Dale Duncan -
Putting an end to Cherry pickin’
A group of concerned citizens has launched a website and an online petition urging people to band together to “save cherry beach:” The Toronto...
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Expo bid “dead”
The Star is reporting that Toronto’s Expo bid did not get off the ground in time for the noon deadline today, despite a high level of support for...
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TWRC changes meeting date
A few weeks ago we reported the Annual General Meeting for the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation would take place tonight at the CBC. The TWRC...
By Ian Malczewski