Jason Thorne

Same spot, two different worlds. Love Boston in any season.

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📍 Boston Public Garden

Friche Belle de Mai!

One of the greatest city maps ever made (by @chazhutton.com)

Order of Canada for the designer of the Ontario Provincial Parks’ fire pits.

From a 7-Eleven to 52 homes. Lovely Leslieville midrise (by architect Superkül and developer Hullmark).

Progress at architect Studio Gang’s first project in Canada, Slate development’s One Delisle (Yonge and St. Clair, Toronto).

Illustration bearing stylized text: “2025 Toronto Urban Design Awards. The 2025 Summary of Entries is now available online. For more info visit toronto.ca/TUDA.

Graphic thanking sponsors of the 2025 Toronto Urban Design Awards with sponsor logos displayed.

Curious about the designs shaping Toronto? The 2025 Toronto Urban Design Awards All Submissions are now online.

Explore the projects are making our city more vibrant, creative and welcoming: www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

Thank you to this year's sponsors for their support.

Very cool. I need to get back to Winnipeg one of these days!

Living with an urban planner (Emily Bernstein in the New Yorker).

“TowerPOPs” in Toronto’s Rockcliffe-Smythe neighbourhood. A partnership between 8-80 Cities and Muslims In Public Space to activate and transform underused spaces in the City’s apartment tower neighbourhoods.

From parking lot to park. “Park In Progress” temporary public space activation in the City parking lot in Liberty Village that will soon be a permanent new city park (watch for the design competition later this year!).

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This will be an important boost for multiplexes. Tonight, Council approved the Mayor’s motion to exempt sixplexes from Development Charges.

“Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ yaaghęhch’ill” by Brian Jungen, an artist known for his sculptures and installations made from repurposed consumer goods (in this case, discarded leather sofas!).

Everyday Enchantments: In Conversation with Daily tous les jours Daily tous les jours co-founders Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat reflect on 15 years of delightfully unconventional design practice.

“The apparently frivolous work around play and joy is really critical right now, so that we can start coming together again.” Great profile of the public space innovators at Daily tous les jours in @azuremagazine.bsky.social

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Each one of our issues wraps up with @shawnmicallef.bsky.social's flaneur column, where he shares the joy of exploration on foot. Anyone can do so, and in the Toronto Star he shares 6 tips - both practical and inspiring - for walking Toronto (gift link). www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Exploring some of the art and history in and around Grange Park with the Toronto Society of Architects. (Learn about the TSA’s walking tours at torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/tours/ … they’re great!) @tosoarch.bsky.social

Another example. This is “Raindrop Plaza” a couple blocks away at Dundas East and Coxwell Avenue. A former channelized right turn lane and parking lane converted into an urban parkette, with rainwater capture, pollinator gardens, and Indigenous placekeeping.

Amazing what can be created out of a little surplus urban road space. Parkette with bio-retention planters at Fairford Avenue and Coxwell Avenue in Toronto (before and after).

Important to remember all the citizen advocacy and activism that got us to today … including the volunteers at the Task Force to Bring Back the Don.

At the grand opening of the new Biidaasige Park … talking about “what’s next” for Ookwemin Minising with David Common on CBC’s Metro Morning.

A new park => new skyline views. The new Biidaasige Park on the Toronto waterfront.

"When you transform buildings, you can allow yourself things that are not always possible in new buildings." 🏛️🔨 In an interview with @dezeen.com, Nathalie de Vries shares how transforming existing buildings has shaped our approach to design and how adaptive reuse can create more sustainable cities.

What Canadian passenger rail looked like in 1955 An interactive map depicting intercity rail services in Ontario and Quebec in 1955

I created a map with both CN and CP, and with frequency!

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Imagine … taking a train from Brantford to Goderich … or from Glencoe to Strathroy … or from Palmerston to Elora … or, well, to just about anywhere (our rail network in 1901).

Love it!

Switzerland is hosting its first major women’s soccer tournament & they’ve changed their traffic signals to honour the athletes. A part of me thinks this is awesome, especially given inequities across women’s sports leagues but research finds that changing traffic symbols is dangerous. Thoughts?

Another great urbanist Starter Pack from @brenttoderian.bsky.social (there were a few in here that I hadn’t noticed had moved to Bluesky!)

Rainbow Dreams in Toronto by artist Hiromi Tango.