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CBC’s Metro Morning show this morning features an interview with Toronto’s chief planner, Ted Tyndorf, (RealPlayer streaming audio, 4:47 minutes) about civic improvements to Toronto’s public realm introduced in 2006. (It also ends by mentioning my NOW magazine article about meeting places in Toronto, with Andy Barrie saying it would be good to have anContinue readinghttp://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/images/metro_header.gif