16 hours ago by gilliandr

Fletcher’s Field, from the Canadian Illustrated News, 1880.

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17 hours ago by Barry Hertz

In our recurring Letters to Toronto feature, we offer readers prime space to let them get urban pet peeves off their chest. Send your letters to thecity@nationalpost.com. Dear Toronto, I like you. Really I do. For nearly 10 years I’ve lived with you now and for the most part we get along great. I am ...

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19 hours ago by palmsundae

Japanese architect Kuwahara Shigeru blogged about my recent Pecha Kucha talk. It’s the first architect review and the first Japanese language review of my work. Kuwahara-san is a talented architect and bright thinker, and I am flattered by his interest. I will excerpt his Swerve blog post, and link ...

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1 day ago by Ellen

We’re solidly in the “New Times Square” camp here. Our institutional passion for pop-up parks, car free spaces, off-the-shelf lawn chairs, and throngs of people predisposes us to love everything about the new pedestrian spaces NYC DOT created along Broadway this year. We also understand the need to ...

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1 day ago by ana thereza

Checking some pictures of montreal in the beginning of the century I found some pictures taken by William Notman. The images are part of the arquives of the McCord Museum and show the canadian identity and community expressed by the use of the mountain. Tobogganing on Mount Royal Park slide, Montrea ...

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2 days ago by Joshua Biggley

CHARLOTTETOWN - In November, the city of Charlottetown hosted a public meeting to review the Integrated Community Sustainability Plan with the hopes of garnering feedback on ideas relating to the fiscal, social, environmental and cultural fabric of our city. Instead of feedback on the ICSP, Stantec ...

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2 days ago by Sharon Black

It's a good to to see what's doing at the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center. The McGannon Center conducts and disseminates research that informs the communications policymaking process and ethical decision-making in the management of media institutions. Here are three of their latest wor ...

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2 days ago by Joop de Boer

Before, we already introduced the Nike Chalkbot used to add supporting and commercial texts to the streets during the Tour de France. Here’s a new public domain printing installation, this time made for vertical surfaces. The Facadeprinter is a simple, software controlled robot. It consists of a two ...

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3 days ago by milena

( Video courtesy of snark – space making) Copenhagen, acknowledged by the Danish as the 2008 best city for cycling, doesn’t rest on its laurels and looks ahead to become the world’s best city for bike-lovers. The city Municipality has announced that, by 2015, the city aims not only to improve its su ...

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3 days ago by Jeroen Beekmans

Helsinki-based photographer Nurri Kim recently released the first Do Projects book ‘Tokyo Blues’ in collaboration with former Tokyo-resident Adam Greenfield. The publication, which can be downloaded for free, contains an interesting photo series focusing on just one peculiar thing you find everywher ...

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