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Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n

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• Is Calatrava compatible with Calgary<\/a>?\u00a0 The world-renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava<\/a> has come up with a bold new design for a pedestrian and bicycle bridge across the Bow River (pictured), one that is revealing a rift between the Calgarians fighting for vibrant, more cosmopolitan urban core and those uninterested in developing the downtown.<\/p>\n

• In an interview with Blueprint America<\/a>, current Chairman Jim Oberstrand of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee outlines what kind of an impact the newly proposed Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009 will have on the future of American transportation.<\/p>\n

• With Portland’s popular Pioneer Courthouse Square<\/a> in mind, the question arises: what is the key to making successful public spaces? In the case of Portland’s central urban plaza, the answer seems to be programming.<\/p>\n

• The appearance of a mysterious child-sized ‘ghost bike’ in NYC<\/a> has prompted the curiosity of the Washington Heights neighbourhood along with local cycling advocates.\u00a0 Originating in St. Louis in 2003, ghost bikes<\/a> – entirely white bicycles that mark where cyclists have been killed – can also be found in Toronto<\/a>, among other cities around the world.<\/p>\n

• Google Street View<\/a> has been up and running for over two years and will soon include Toronto<\/a> in its growing list of cities available for viewing.\u00a0 Once Toronto Street View is available, who knows what strange sights<\/a> will be spotted by a growing group of users?\u00a0 In Brooklyn, Google’s cameras seem to have captured a mystical stairway to heaven<\/a> on a quiet residential street.<\/p>\n

• There are few things more unpleasant than the ear-splitting noise of a subway car grinding its way around a bend.\u00a0 While not all sounds that accompany the use of public transit are quite so abrasive, attempts to address the issue of noise on public transit has a long history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

• One of the heads of the Department of Environmental Science at Columbia University predicts that by 2017, it will be impossible to drive through any major city in the world without seeing large scale ‘vertical farms’<\/a> that feed a significant portion of the city’s population.\u00a0 Whether this thought-provoking claim is fact or fiction hasn’t prevented hypothetical ideas for ‘vertical farms’ in Toronto<\/a> from surfacing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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