Waterfront
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Motorhead Beachhead
The Beaches vs. The Beach is not the only battle on the beach in Toronto — a coalition of Parkdale community groups is trying to stop a waterfront...
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The winner is The Beach
Over 2,200 people voted on whether to brand their street signs with “The Beach” or “The Beaches” — 58% voted for the...
By Matthew Blackett -
T.O.’s Expo bid, the Metropass, the suburbs
A few links to articles in the Toronto Star today: With the city set to decide late next month whether to back a bid for the Expo 2015 world’s fair...
By Matthew Blackett -
Again with the waterfront…
Spent part of the afternoon wandering along the Windsor waterfront & Detroit River. On the west side — “downriver” — Windsor...
By Shawn Micallef -
Speaking of the waterfront…
CommunityAIR, the group that helped stop the bridge to the Toronto Island Airport, is still battling hard to keep any kind of commercial airline out of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Conflicting views of T.O.’s waterfront and engery needs
Robert Ouellette had a good post on Reading Toronto yesterday (with some good links, too): “Why is it that whenever Toronto begins to improve the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Public space in the news today
Here are a few links to articles in today’s papers: The TTC is going shopping for new streetcars. The photo above, from Minneapolis, is the new...
By Matthew Blackett -
Waterfront, GTTA news, Mississauga BRT, trees in Oakville
The Toronto Star has a number of articles today that may be of interest to you: Christopher Hume from the Toronto Star, on the city’s waterfront...
By Matthew Blackett -
Waterfront takes next step
From the Toronto Star today: Today, an old cement block warehouse will come tumbling down on King St., east of Toronto’s downtown. The demolition of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Leading us to water
This morning the Globe and Mail is reporting that the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp has short listed a competition to make the approach to the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Naturalized Water Cleaning Planned for Toronto
Toronto is planning to establish a wetland in a neglected spot of public land near High Park that will clean stormwater before it is dumped into Lake...
By Dylan Reid -
Some good readings
A few tasty reads for you: here are three recent columns from Christopher Hume at the Star. The first column is about the public art at Toronto’s...
By Matthew Blackett