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“How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel” in the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

The world’s longest rainbow path. The 600 metre “Long Walk to Equality” by artist Travis Myers at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island … the location of Canada’s first Pride in 1971.

Amazing!

Cool opportunity!

the 506 Carlton streetcar, bending up at Spadina to go along college, shortly after sundown

Sidecar

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What route is it?

I just found out baby carrots were only invented in 1986. I’m older than baby carrots.

Would love that!

What is Indigenous place making? It is centering Indigenous voices within the creation of spaces: honouring Indigenous stories on the land. Many communities have not had the opportunity to see themselves expressed in the built environment.

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We want to highlight all the amazing public space activations and placemaking projects across the GTA! Got something coming up? DM or tag us to share. #toronto #placemaking #publicspace #community

It's Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health Oppressive, unstimulating urban architecture isn’t just about eyesores; there’s evidence that it can cause actual harm to its residents. To fix this in 2025, we must start building for joy.

Nice to see the oppressiveness research I did with my trailblazing PhD supervisor Dr. Colin Ellard get a shout out in this @wired.com piece. It’s about time for truly neuroscience-informed urban design, and joy. www.wired.com/story/boring...

Places of my heart Falling in love with place attachment

What a beautiful meditation on the tear-jerking power of place from reforming academic and friend Colin Ellard: open.substack.com/pub/colinell...

Montreal Makes People Feel Welcome With Safe Streets, Happy Places & Green Spaces — Streetfilms My standing piece of advice for those who live in North America who pine to see the best-practice streets of dozens of places in Europe or want to educate colleague/friends what’s possible: just go to...

WATCH: “My standing piece of advice for those in North America who pine to see the best-practice streets & places in Europe or want to educate colleagues/friends on what’s possible: go to Montreal. It’s much closer. They really have it all.” Via @streetfilms.bsky.social & @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social.

🎉 Exciting news ahead: our next installation is coming November 2025!

We’ll also share updates on how this work is expanding to support grief-informed futures and placemaking.

🫶 Grateful to the communities & partners who make this possible.

#placemaking #publicspaceforgrief #griefinformedfutures

The City of Toronto is reviewing its Tree bylaws and related policies to better support tree planting, preservation, and maintenance across all neighbourhoods. Survey:

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Toronto could use more of this. There are plenty of back lanes where it could work.

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I learned how to gamble on the streets of Toronto 🇨🇦 🎰
#Batman #DC #POGs #Vintage

Honoured to share the stage with Toronto's hottest urbanist tonight.

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Photo of a street flanked on each side by small businesses, sidewalks with pedestrians, trees and parked cars. A streetcar travels along a dedicated right of way in the middle of the street.

Toronto’s Avenues are more than just streets; they’re places planned for growth with transit, shops, services and housing working together. In this thread, we’ll explain what’s happening and how you can get involved.

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GOOD SPACES CREATE GREAT PLACES: A magazine and a retail store combine to change how we view Toronto. - Hidden Gems Toronto The  dynamic duo of Matt Blackett and Dylan Reid have been part of an intriguing organization that has played a critical role in making our city better. Matt is the publisher and creative directo...

I was interviewed, along with my colleague Matthew Blackett, on the Hidden Gems podcast about Spacing magazine - its origins, how it works, and its role in Toronto (I'm the second half of the podcast). hiddengemstoronto.buzzsprout.com/1745243/epis...

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"A lot of magic can happen when people come together in public space, and you can’t always predict exactly what it will be."

It was such a pleasure talking to @jasonthorne.bsky.social about the joy potential of public spaces in our cities.

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 089, Global ideas for local placemaking - Spacing Toronto In this episode we bring you the highlights from Global Placemaking Summit which took place in March at Evergreen in Toronto. First, we drill down into the meaning to the term with some of the event o...

On th latest @spacingradio.bsky.social, we bring you the highlights from the Global Placemaking Summit held at @evergreencanada.bsky.social. We speak to experts from around the world: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...