In 1864, Fydor Dostoevsky wrote his seminal Notes from Underground, a novella exploring existentialism and alienation in a large city – in his case, St. Petersburg – the premise of which in many ways ...

The University of Toronto’s School of Cities will be screening a re-mastered print of the film, “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, provided by NYC’s Project for Public Spaces, on Tuesday at 6pm.

See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...

Indigenous-led Housing What does Indigenous housing look like? Are there special forms of housing needed by Indigenous ...

Electric cars are in the news, though it’s hard to call them new. Torontonians were impressed when they first saw an electric ...

It was a cool late afternoon in October when I met up with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett at Trees Café on Granville Street. The ...

In the spring of 2023, a friend who was familiar with my earlier documentary photography of the city’s main streets suggested ...

Dawn doesn’t so much break over Toronto on marathon morning as creep in behind the sound of trucks, radios, and zip-ties.

Walk down a crowded city street and you might marvel at its vibrancy—people brushing past each other, buildings packed like ...

When the University of Toronto’s John P. Robarts Research Library, located at St. George and Harbord streets, opened its doors in 1973, it was the largest academic library building in the world, ...

Mark Wilson and Prince Charles touring the mouth of the Don River, 1991 In the coming weeks, Waterfront Toronto crews will remove the final plug in the new Lower Don, thereby allowing the river to ...

When Infrastructure Ontario executes public-private partnership arrangements, there are numerous permutations — design-build-finance-maintain, outright land sales, straight-up contracting gigs (e.g., ...