• What: Jane's Walk 2009 • When: May 2 and 3, 2009 • Where: your neighbourhood, hopefully! Bring Jane's Walk to your neighbourhood this year by leading one. You can take part in Jane's Walk 2009 (May 2 and 3 in Toronto and other cities across North America) by putting together a tour of your local community. Show and share your local pride. Jane's Walk tours are an informing and inspiring way to learn about growing neighbourhoods all over your city.  They connect people by promoting urban literacy and citizen engagement. For tips on how to ...

Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We'll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. • Alanah Heffez asks what a neighbourhood is and wonders why some retain a strong identity, while others lack a sense of place or name. • Christopher DeWolf talks about the interesting flat-roofed one-storey houses called shoebox houses -- or, as one Urbanphoto commenter calls them, "hobbit houses." Read about DeWolf's mixed feelings about ...

Photo by Fred Mahieu Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We'll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. • Chris Erb explores the concerns about tearing down the Bonaventure Expressway that is planned to be replaced with a bus corridor, new office buildings and hotels. Although it has been talked about for years, it seems as if it will soon become a reality. • ...

Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We'll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. • Andrew E has written a couple of urban-exploration posts about the now-buried rivers of Riviere St-Pierre in Montreal Ouest and Cote St. Luc. • Cédric Sam is hoping Montreal's Chinatown will include the same variety found in Toronto and Vancouver. Read how it's beginning to take shape with the construction of ...

  Photo of McTavish Reservoir by Controleman   Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We'll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. • The bones of a train station is beginning to take shape underneath Trudeau Airport but it may be without trains servicing the station unless the government forks over more cash.  Christopher DeWolf explores the La Presse report. • Chris Erb believes it is ...

Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We'll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.  • Over the weekend, Alanah Heffez joined a tour of Montreal's waste water treatment facility and discovered why it's the third largest in the world. • As a bonus to her water treatment post, Alanah posted the photo above, taken during her visit to the plant, and asked readers ...

Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We'll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. • Although the vote to ban face masks at demonstrations has been postponed, it's hard to tell if the City is throwing in their towel on the project.  As Christopher DeWolf points out, the logic behind the proposed regulation seems especially faulty in a city wound up in winter for so much ...

Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We'll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. • Alanah Heffez reports that the Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal (OPCM) is holding a public information and question session tomorrow, February 17th, to talk about the debate over plans for the old Canada Post site in Pointe-St-Charles. • Chris Erb posted a photo essay of some of the graffiti art surrounding the Darling ...

Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We'll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. • Chris Erb got a great gander at Bixi, Montreal's new shared bikes, at the Micro/Macro conference hosted by CAPS (Canadian Association of Planning Students). • Bronwyn Chester is awed by Scotch pines in Angrignon Park. Chester includes the history of these surreal-looking pines from the 19th century, from post-second World War to present day. • Alanah Heffez writes how environmental ...

The latest news on the resurfacing of the Downtown Relief Line (DRL) subway proposal has kickstarted discussion on the Facebook DRL group. Created and maintained by Urban Toronto message board moderator Jason Paris, the group features a flurry of comments by everyone from dedicated transit advocates to regular Torontonians expressing excitement about the idea and frustration about overcrowding and delays on the existing lines. The group's self-stated goal is to "help make our elected representatives fight for better transit for ALL of Toronto," and its wall is splashed with an outpouring of emotion and ...