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In Praise of Mall Playgrounds
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Artificial Lightning in Philadelphia
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On the TTC Riders' Strike this Friday
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Combating NIMBYism in the K-W LRT Debate
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Farewell Mayor Miller
Comments (11) - September 23, 2009
The Importance of 'Wasted' Space
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Clock Ticking on Toronto's Streetcar Deal
Comments (9) - June 1, 2009
On Waterloo Region's Car-Dependency
Part 3: The Bad News - May 13, 2009
Human Shields on the Gardiner?
Comments (11) - April 22, 2009
How Long Does it Take for Suburbs to Disappear?
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On Waterloo Region's Car-Dependency
Part 2: The Good News
Comments (2) - February 9, 2009
On Waterloo Region's Car-Dependency
Comments (9) - December 12, 2008
A Local Venture
Comments (5) - December 10, 2008
Ah, but could Goodyear Rubber have prevented this accident?
Comments (4) - November 20, 2008
Updates and Thank Yous
Comments (1) - September 21, 2008
Why Me? Why LRT?
Comments (1) - September 4, 2008
Dear Dalton McGuinty: Show us the Money!!
Comments (1) - June 26, 2008
GO comes to Cambridge? Greyhound goes to Hell
Comments (10) - June 25, 2008
Fuel Prices: How We'll Adjust
Comments (8) - June 18, 2008
The Long and Winding Day - June 6, 2008
Oh, How I Love to go up in a Swing!
Comments (4) - May 21, 2008
Terrorism in Toronto's Subway... in 1985
Comments (1) - May 16, 2008
Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part VI (Conclusion): Bill Davis
Comments (2) - April 26, 2008
On the TTC Strike, ATU Local 113 and Essential Services
Comments (2) - April 22, 2008
Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part V: Bob Rae and David Petersen?
Comments (2) - April 16, 2008
Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part IV: Mike Harris and Ernie Eves?
Comments (3) - March 25, 2008
Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part III: Dalton McGuinty?
Comments (2) - March 19, 2008
Being Partisan Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
Comments (2) - March 16, 2008
Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Part II: Mel Lastman?
Comments (2) - March 14, 2008
Toronto: Whose Fault is it?
Comments (3) - February 29, 2008
The Death of the Suburban Dream?
Comments (5) - February 7, 2008
Remembering the Canary
Comments (3) - February 3, 2008
Exhuming Taddle Creek
Comments (1) - January 31, 2008
Making PATHs
Comments (3) - December 6, 2007
My Speech to the Assembled at the Rocket Riders Forum on the Queen Streetcar
Comments (4) - October 17, 2007
"Expert" Advice?
Comments (4) - October 7, 2007
The Case for Howard Hampton
Comments (1) - August 25, 2007
The Names of Things IV
Ontario Highways Edition
Comments (3) - August 22, 2007
An Open Letter to Royson James - August 20, 2007
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gardiner
Comments (4) - August 18, 2007
Mediocre Media Against the NDP
Comments (2) - August 17, 2007
I Get Letters... - July 21, 2007
This City Lives
Comments (1) - July 19, 2007
Politicians to City: Drop Dead
Comments (6) - July 11, 2007
A Long Life, Well Lived. Honest!
(Ed Mirvish, 1914-2007) - June 22, 2007
McGuinty Busts it Open
Comments (6) - June 6, 2007
Italo Calvino and Me
Comments (2) - May 20, 2007
Does Anybody Remember Blinky?
Comments (1) - April 27, 2007
Yet Another Toronto-based Political Blog, But...
Comments (5) - April 12, 2007
David and Goliath
Comments (2) - March 5, 2007
Strange Bedfellows Indeed (Harper and McGuinty Seduced... by Transit)
Comments (14) - January 17, 2007
Portrait in Bubble - November 18, 2006
The Rise of Willis Way
Comments (6) - October 3, 2006
Elected to do Mostly Nothing
Comments (1) - October 2, 2006
The State of Waterloo's Economy
Comments (4) - October 1, 2006
Waterloo Region Ponders Reforms
Comments (1) - September 27, 2006
Jane Pitfield Brakes For Bad Drivers
Comments (12) - September 12, 2006
Driving Airport Road (Mono Road)
Comments (2) - August 22, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street X:
The End(s).
Comments (1) - August 21, 2006
Brantford Turns a Corner?
Comments (1) - August 19, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street IX:
The Great Divide - August 15, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street VIII:
Drivers' Paradise - August 11, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street VII:
The Downtown that Mel Built - August 7, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street VI:
Suburban Gateway - August 6, 2006
Accidental Spaces
Comments (1) - August 4, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street V:
Midtown - August 1, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street IV:
Heart of Yonge
Comments (4) - July 30, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street IIIa:
Why is Temperance Street So-Named?
Comments (2) - July 29, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street III:
In the Shadow of Other Streets
Comments (5) - July 27, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street II:
At the Beginning
Comments (5) - July 25, 2006
To the True End of Yonge Street
Comments (3) - July 12, 2006
I Was Thinking of James Howard Kunstler...
Comments (2) - June 30, 2006
The Problem of Public Transit III: Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Comments (4) - June 10, 2006
Mike Filey's Ninth Toronto Sketches Reviewed
Comments (3) - June 8, 2006
Why Mess With (Near) Perfection? - May 30, 2006
The Moment I Realized I'd Left Reality and Was Now a Resident of Cloudcookooland VI - May 19, 2006
The Court Jesters Speak the Truth
Comments (3) - May 11, 2006
The Problem of Public Transit II: Not Spending Where it's Needed, Not Needing Where it's Spent
Comments (1) - May 8, 2006
Walking for Wendy - May 4, 2006
The Problem of Public Transit I: The Silent Necessity Grows Louder - April 25, 2006
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)
Comments (4) - April 19, 2006
The Eleventh Province Revisited
Comments (12) - April 13, 2006
Greyfields Illustrated
Comments (4) - April 9, 2006
Three Restaurants
Comments (4) - April 1, 2006
Erin Reads at the Brantford Armouries
Comments (4) - March 30, 2006
The Don Lands Rise At Last - March 15, 2006
You Can't Go Home Again...
Comments (2) - March 12, 2006
You Don't Know What You Got Until...
Comments (1) - March 10, 2006
I Hear Tinfoil Works Well...
Comments (7) - March 5, 2006
The National To-Do List
Comments (3) - February 25, 2006
Throwing Caution to the Wind - February 17, 2006
Quick Hits - February 17
Comments (2) - February 8, 2006
Oh, Dear God.
Comments (6) - February 4, 2006
On the Forsythe
Comments (1) - February 1, 2006
There's Something Happening Here...
Comments (1) - January 7, 2006
Carnage
Comments (15) - January 2, 2006
Quick Hits - January 2
Comments (1) - December 14, 2005
Bound for the Discovery Channel...
Comments (4) - November 7, 2005
Uptown Waterloo Receives Free WiFi
Comments (2) - October 4, 2005
Time to Talk Trash
Comments (10) - August 25, 2005
Patriotism Really is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel
Comments (7) - August 9, 2005
So, what was that about peak oil?
Comments (6) - August 4, 2005
The Conservatives Are On Their Trolley
Comments (8) - August 1, 2005
The Passing of King Fahd - July 25, 2005
Integrity
Comments (7) - June 16, 2005
The Mystery of the Lost Heads
Comments (2) - June 11, 2005
The Conservative Critique Ia - Urban Affairs Redux
Comments (3) - May 30, 2005
The Conservative Critique I - Urban Affairs
Comments (1) - April 16, 2005
The Stories of the City
Comments (2) - April 2, 2005
April Fools III - January 3, 2005
Eating in America ("I [don't] feel [so] good!").
Comments (3) - November 2, 2004
Hope For Weston - October 9, 2004
"OCAP Setting a Poor Example"
Comments (2) - September 18, 2004
Our Last Best Chance to Control Our Future? IV - September 10, 2004
Road Hog
Comments (3) - August 24, 2004
Our Last Best Chance to Control Our Future? III
Comments (2) - August 19, 2004
Our Last Best Chance to Control Our Future? II - August 16, 2004
Our Last Best Chance to Control Our Future?
Comments (1) - June 19, 2004
Why Cities Matter
Comments (14) - May 31, 2004
Falling Down
Comments (7) - April 23, 2004
Blame Canada!
Comments (7) - April 1, 2004
Unfortunate Connotations
Comments (1) - March 30, 2004
Eulogy
Comments (4) - March 29, 2004
Distinguishing the Candidates
Comments (1) - March 11, 2004
How to Spend a Billion Dollars Without Really Trying
Comments (3) - February 16, 2004
Can You See Me? - February 7, 2004
Patience...
Comments (5) - February 2, 2004
Top Blogs!
Comments (3) - January 16, 2004
Monorail Redux
Comments (3) - January 14, 2004
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
Comments (4) - January 2, 2004
What Provincial Investment Means to the TTC - December 26, 2003
Our Next Cities III - What's Coming Next
Comments (2) - December 23, 2003
Free Advice For Our Prime Minister
Comments (1) - December 19, 2003
Our Next Cities II - The Cycles of Planning
Comments (1) - December 17, 2003
Our Next Cities I - The Arrogance of Planners
Comments (2) - December 9, 2003
The Uptown
Comments (3) - November 12, 2003
Big Day Today
Comments (4) - November 10, 2003
Election Day Speculations - October 21, 2003
Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood.
Comments (3) - October 7, 2003
In the Year 2525 - September 24, 2003
Bad News For Eves: No Clear Winner
Comments (6) - September 8, 2003
The Belle of Eden Mills
Comments (1) - August 9, 2003
The Dance of the Daring Automobiles
Comments (2) - July 5, 2003
The Little Train that Couldn't
Comments (2) - June 30, 2003
Shrink Toronto Council? - June 27, 2003
Facing the Future - June 16, 2003
Putting On Your Public Face - June 12, 2003
The Use of Space
Comments (3) - June 8, 2003
An Open Letter to the Mayor of the City of Kitchener - May 25, 2003
The Pearson-Union Rail Link
Comments (4) - May 24, 2003
Chicago's Circle Line
Comments (2) - May 7, 2003
Broken Windows, Broken Dreams
Comments (3) - April 16, 2003
My Town - A Sense of Optimism
Comments (1) - April 4, 2003
My Town - A Sense of Similarity, A Sense of Difference
Comments (2) - March 29, 2003
My Town
Comments (1) - March 13, 2003
The Names of Things II -- So, You Want to Rename Your City...
Comments (3) - March 12, 2003
The Names of Things
Comments (9) - March 5, 2003
To Toll or Not to Toll?
Comments (5) - March 1, 2003
My Home Town
Comments (2) - February 20, 2003
Our Municipal Fall Guys
Comments (1) - February 19, 2003
The Federal Government Ignores Our Cities, Again
Comments (4) - February 16, 2003
Protest is Good for You - February 9, 2003
Drivers Flow Like Water
Comments (3) - December 30, 2002
What Makes Toronto a Good City
Comments (1) - December 27, 2002
Whither the Sheppard Subway
Comments (5) - December 12, 2002
Greyfields: Coming Soon to a Mall Near You
Comments (4) - December 9, 2002
The Spadina Streetcar/LRT
Comments (3) - December 7, 2002
Lament for Detroit - November 26, 2002
Liberals Lack Lustre
Comments (3) - November 18, 2002
The Village of Weston is Dying
Comments (1) - November 15, 2002
Transit: the Silent Necessity - August 28, 2002
Reasons for Optimism
Comments (1) - July 18, 2002
Burn Some Here, Save Some There
Comments (1) - July 17, 2002
Not the World Cup.
Comments (8) - May 31, 2002
Toronto Should Be Canada's 11th Province
Comments (1) - May 28, 2002
Toronto's Official Plan - May 6, 2002
Power to the Cities - April 30, 2002
My Subway Fantasy
Comments (14) - April 17, 2002
Overheating in Ontario's Cruel Spring
Comments (1) - March 31, 2002
Why Two-Tier Regional Government Works
Comments (1) - March 18, 2002
The Box Store Paradox
Comments (1) - March 1, 2002
Maybe it Shouldn't go into my Backyard?
