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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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\n•\u00a0Organizers of “Burning Man”<\/a>, the annual art fair and temporary city of over 50, 000 located in the Nevada dessert, argue that contemporary cities can learn from the festival’s success<\/a>. Next year’s theme will be “Metropolis: The Life of Cities”<\/a> promising explicit exploration of what urbanists can learn from the Burning Man festival.<\/p>\n

• Belgium’s new Li\u00e0\u00a8ge-Guillemins<\/a> train station, described by the Guardian<\/a> as “easily one of the world’s finest…suggest[ing] openness, a dissolving of boundaries, infinite horizons, speed, grace and ease …”, has quickly become a destination in and of itself. The station, which took 13 years and \u00a3267 million to build, is the work of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava<\/a> known to Torontonians for his work on the BCE Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

• The small English village of Highworth is in the midst of an impassioned fight over public space after a group of villagers, believing their gardens weren’t big enough, annexed “in blitzkrieg style” the open space adjacent to their gardens<\/a>. <\/p>\n

• Last week in World Wide Wednesday we talked about (Park)ing day 2009<\/a>. Check out the photographs and stories <\/a>of how it unfolded. <\/p>\n

• A recent Wall Street Journal article <\/a>looks how American suburbs are failing to meet the needs of the elderly and focuses on\u00a0 retrofitting the traditional American suburb.<\/p>\n

• Sociologist Dave Horton’s five part essay entitled “Fear of Cycling”<\/a> (published on copenhagenize.com<\/a>), is especially topical for Toronto’s cyclists as bike safety has become a increasingly contested issue among Torontonians and at City Hall<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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