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Olivia Wants Ottawa and Queen's Park to Pay for Toronto Housing - Here's Why I'm Here for It.

Toronto, the biggest city in one of the fastest growing countries in the world, is facing an unprecedented housing availability and affordability crisis. Will the federal and...

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The Intangible City

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Just back from India, I’m thinking about the intangible thing that is a city. The thing that makes your neck get all hot and prickly when you read Wallpaper’s take on your city or

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Toronto and the Boring Neighbourhood

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Events this week made me think of Tyler Brûlé on Toronto: “He’s got a really nice flat and it’s great that his kids go to a nice school, but shit, it’s boring there.”

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Jane’s Heir?

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Urmi Desai in Urban Issues

CBC’s The Passionate Eye recently profiled “The Passionate Prince” – a work I settled down to watch once I was able to verify that it was not about...

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The 'Why' of Home Buying

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Given the disastrous effects of the subprime mortgage on the world economy, it is easy to forget that many once saw the instrument as an agent of good. Under many US...

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What's in a Name? The Leslieville Lofts Saga

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Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my views on names, which is that they matter.  The big names behind the Leslieville Lofts project, Lamb Development Corp and Hyde...

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The Scent of a Neighbourhood

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I have become a great fan of Andy Barrie. It happened the morning he reported on the incredible story of brakes being cut on the cars of Toronto-area Liberal party supporters....

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Spotted: School Wars

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It may go unnoticed by the rest of us, but parents have long made the "right school" the heart of their home buying decisions.  Toronto Life's September issue features lying,...
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Revisiting the Emerging Neighbourhood

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A reader recently wrote in to ask me about the Distillery District following an early post. He's not the only one to wonder about 'emerging neighbourhoods'. While up-and-comers...

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In the Eye of the Beholder: Smut and the Emerging Neighbourhood

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Two Toronto communities are fighting the re-appearance of naughty nudies on their strip.  Residents of New Toronto and neighbouring Long Branch are home to an increasing number of...

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The Shopping Mall Revolution

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The shopping mall, currently staring as the villain of Leslieville, and frequent associate of the gassy nightmare that is the suburbs, is rarely heralded by urban enthusiasts....

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Talking About Toronto's Waterfront

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He was a young guy, fresh-faced and eager - to talk to me. Not necessarily odd, but odd for a dimly-lit subway car after a long work day. "Is that what you work on?" he wanted to...

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What Would Jane Jacobs Think? Expanding Toronto's Underground PATH

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Urmi in Neighbourhoods, Lifestyle, In the News

Plans are underway to expand Toronto’s PATH system. Developers and planners would like to extend the network of underground...

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