#airport #Toronto (at Toronto Pearson... Where we mix the old with the new. Where we mix the old with the new. Rob Ford LRT Knowledge Questioned As Subway Plan Passes (VIDEO) The amazing bicycle led art tour @torontoartspin. Photos du journal. Feeling Congested. Our public meetings will give you an opportunity to learn about current and future transportation plans, ask questions and have your say on these important issues.
Phase 3 Public Open Houses to present and discuss the draft policy changes will be held on the following dates: Tuesday April 29th, 2014 North York Civic Centre Committee Room 3 Open House: 3pm - 9pm Presentation: 7pm Wednesday April 30th, 2014 Scarborough Civic Centre Rotunda Open House: 3pm - 9pm Presentation: 7pm Thursday May 1st, 2014 Metro Hall Room 302 & 303 Open House: 3pm - 9pm Presentation: 7pm Monday, May 5th, 2014 Etobicoke Civic Centre Foyer & Council Chambers Open House: 3pm - 9pm Presentation: 7pmt. The New York Times is collecting Toronto Biking Wisdom! A mayor who refuses to lead. So here’s what just happened at the meeting of Mayor Rob Ford’s Executive Committee, moments ago as I write this: a slim majority (6-4) voted to defer voting on recommending new transit funding tools until later.
How much later? A day after Metrolinx’s meeting where they’ll decide which revenue tools to recommend. The recommendations that will go to the province days later in order to decide how the GTA will pay for transit for a generation. Rob Ford, Frank Di Giorgio, Norm Kelly, David Shiner, Cesar Palacio, and Gary Crawford. Those are the six who voted to remain silent on what might be the biggest quality of life decision the province will make on our behalf this year, or in many, many years. They didn’t vote to recommend some other set of tools, of course (say, a bake-sales and talent shows plan—which could work because Gary Crawford has spent more time playing music in front of political crowds in the past year than he has saying anything of substance).
It is pathetic. Upcoming Talks In Toronto - Podium. Flavio Trevisan, Artist. Marlena's Maps. June 2012. Meet Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto’s new chief planner. In the lead-up to the previous municipal election, Spacing identified the most pressing urban issues facing the city.
In our urban planning feature we highlighted the need for the City to hire a new and energetic chief planner to replace the soon-to-be retired Gary Wright. We wrote, “A new boss who is willing to reform the planning and public consultation process is desperately needed in Toronto.” After a year of searching, the City of Toronto announced yesterday the hiring of Jennifer Keesmaat as the new chief planner. It was a surprise hiring to many observers, including yours truly, as we believed the City would take the safe route and hire a warm body from within the bureaucracy.
Instead, they chose an unapologetic urbanist who made her mark in private practice as a partner at both the Office For Urbanism and Dialog. Her hiring is commendable for a number of reasons. On a personal note, I’ve known Ms. Do I have a unique perspective because I’m coming to this role as a woman? Spacing’s Shawn Micallef one of this year’s TEDxToronto speakers. Heritage Toronto - Telling Toronto's Stories.
Unique maps of Toronto. I'm a junky for unique maps of Toronto, be these hand-drawn or computer generated.
For the most part, I satisfy my interest via the Historical Atlas of Toronto, which is my favourite book about the city. But, when I'm looking for something more interactive -- or even just recent -- I obviously take to the internet to supplement this little hobby. Over the years, blogTO has posted on a number of cool projects that map Toronto in various ways, but because it's tough to find all of them with one click or search request, I realized that the time has come to collect a number of them together in few map-themed posts. Why a few posts? Well, because I'd like to keep the TTC out of this for now -- not because I'm not a fan of the various fantasy maps that have popped up over the years, but because they deserve their own treatment. Eric Fischer's The Geotagger's World Atlas James Redekop's Cycling Map Flavio Trevisan's Studies of a New Past Kieran Huggin's Animated TTC Service Maps So cool.
Panorama of the City of Toronto, 1857. Click on the Pan Left or Pan Right buttons above OR click and drag the panorama itself to move the panorama left and right.
If you are using a low resolution monitor try switching to full-screen mode (press the F11 key with most PC browsers) to improve the viewing experience. The 13 photos used in this panorama are Toronto Public Library copies acquired from Library and Archives Canada after the lost originals were rediscovered in Library of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London in the 1970s. The City of Toronto Archives also holds a set of these images. Click here to view more information about the panorama and the Rossin House Hotel from which the photographs were taken.
Source: Special Collections, Toronto Public Library.