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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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• Vancouver’s new rapid transit train The Canada Line<\/a> officially opened last Monday, drawing both praise and criticism.\u00a0 Operating from downtown Vancouver and the airport, the route was flooded with 30,000 passengers who took advantage of the opening day fare-free promotion.<\/p>\n

• Website Babelgum<\/a> has put out six short episodes describing some new and exciting uses of space that they have lumped into the category of New Urbanism.\u00a0 They include a short look at dumpster pools<\/a>, urban mini-golf<\/a> and rooftop farming<\/a> in Brooklyn, an opera in a German subway station<\/a>, water-based living aboard a waterpod<\/a> and the transformation of a vacant lot into a tent city<\/a> in NYC.<\/p>\n

• The Paperhouse<\/a>, a beautiful new bronze-clad kiosk, can now be seen on the streets of London, England. The chesnut-like structure has a steel and plywood frame which is bolted to the ground.<\/p>\n

• Dumpster diving not your cup of tea? How about the polluted East River in the Bronx, where a giant moored barge with a half-olympic sized public pool<\/a> can be found? The pool was towed from the Brooklyn bridge to the Bronx, an area of NYC lacking in public recreational facilities.<\/p>\n

• Residents in Sarnia, Ontario showed a US prototype surveillance balloon some skin<\/a> as it flew over the border city.\u00a0 At least 100 people turned up to give the balloon a face-full of Ontario ass to express their displeasure with the incursion of a US company on their privacy.<\/p>\n

• How do you define “the right type of density<\/a>?”\u00a0 That is the question Kaid Benfield, the director of the Smart Growth Program in Washington D.C. tackles in his essay on different kinds of density and the challenge of getting smart density implemented.<\/p>\n

• Far from bashing ‘cold’ Torontonians, this Indian billboard may one day save lives<\/a>. In Mumbai, a branded dingy has been strung up to a billboard just before the start of flood season along with the caption ‘In case of emergency cut rope.’<\/p>\n

• Paris is making waves in urban transportation policy as they roll out plans to begin Autolib<\/em>, the world’s first city-run car sharing program<\/a>.\u00a0 The program will be operated by a public-private partnership and calls for 4000 electric vehicles and 1,400 rental and recharging stations distributed in and around Paris.<\/p>\n

Photo by Stewart Butterfield<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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