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Quote of the Day: George Baird On Sustainable Architecture
George Baird was the most articulate professor I ever had; he once launched into a sentence, the length of a paragraph, that was so intricately constructed, with such an extraordinary
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Guess What: Bike Lanes Improve Driving Conditions For Cars
Listening to the noise from some politicians in New York and Toronto, you would think that bike lanes are the worst things that ever happened to their roads, taking up space that was theirs and theirs
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Cycling Community Pays Tribute To Canadian Opposition Leader Jack Layton: "In Heaven, Everybody Rides A Bicycle."
I noted in the brief obit for Canadian leader of the Opposition Jack Layton that he was a committed urban cyclist, and that he and Olivia have been cycling everywhere forever, long before it was fashionable. The spontaneous
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The Shipping Container News: Boxes Turned Into a Playground in Manchester, Popup Stores in Toronto
Proof that big boys can still have fun playing with boxes; BDP, the second biggest architectural firm in the UK has built a temporary installation of "music boxes" for the Manchester International Festival.
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More Bike News: David Suzuki on Bike Lanes, The Guardian On Toronto's War on Bikes
David Suzuki weighs in on bike lanes in Huffington Post Canada: Most arguments against bike lanes are absurd. Consider this: We have wide roads everywhere to accommodate cars, most of which carry only one person. On
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When an 81 Year Old Driver Kills An 84 Year Old Cyclist, Why Do They Blame The Victim?
The Toronto media went insane last month when a cyclist hit a pedestrian and injured her; (see The War On Bikes In Toronto Just Got A Poster Child) Suddenly everyone was calling for licensing of bikes, mandatory insurance and testing.
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Why Architects Shouldn't Build Condos out of Glass And People Shouldn't Buy Them
Murano Condo, Toronto, Where the Glass is Falling off Balconies. Image credit Allan Windows Glass balcony panels are raining down on the streets of Toronto from the shiny new condominiums, building envelope expert John Straube was interviewed on Ontario
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Bike Nation to Ford Nation: "We Just Want To Share"
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was elected on a platform of "Respect For Taxpayers", but that hasn't stopped him from spending $400,000 of taxpayers money to rip up bike lanes that are purported to be slowing traffic. Last night,
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Toronto Bike Lanes: How Did It Come To This?
It's official; Toronto is tearing up its one year old Jarvis Street bike lanes and adding back a fifth driving lane. One Councillor said it's because a constituent complained I have 4 kids and I can't get home
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Moving? Box Rental Company Good Boxes Delivers and Eliminates the Cardboard Waste
You have to buy cardboard boxes or find clean, undamaged ones. Then there's
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Watching The Dismantling Of Everything Green In Toronto
When Rob Ford was running for Mayor of Toronto, he complained about the "gravy train" of waste, and promised that he would balance the budget without any service cutbacks. Now he is Mayor, and the first report is in from KPMG,
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The War On Bikes In Toronto Just Got A Poster Child
Every news show in town is leading with the story about a woman being in hospital with serious head injuries after being hit by a jerk on a bicycle who went through a red light, going the
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It's Shoe Time For Container Gardening
TreeHugger has shown a lot of container gardens, but this may be the smallest container yet, and the best example of recycling. Ontario balcony gardener Mike Szilagyi tells John Reinhardt at Grown in the City: I tried my
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The Architecture Lover's Manifesto
TreeHugger readers have heard Carl Elefante's rallying cry "The greenest building is the one already standing" many times; now architectural writer Dave LeBlanc presents the
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The War On Bikes In Toronto Just Gets Sillier And Sillier
The Toronto Star sets up a camera at a Toronto intersection. They add arrows and graphics and terrible music and find that over half of the cyclists go through the red light. They use breathless prose like "You just might not
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Toronto Transit System Paralyzed By Ducklings
Here is a heartwarming animal story about the peaceful coexistence of nature and urban life: The Scarborough Light Rail Transit system was shut down yesterday- by a family of ducks. According to the Star, An operator spotted the mother and her ducklings
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Are Cyclists Selfish and Rude? No, And We Have Video to Prove It
It is the talk of Toronto right now, how cyclists break the law by blowing through stop signs, riding the wrong way on one way streets, and give the finger to anyone who complains. The Star gives a couple of column inches to a woman who says:
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Toronto's Underpass Park "Will Change The City Forever"
New York has the High Line, an industrial relic that has been turned into an urban wonder. Everybody is trying to imitate its success; the normally sensible architect Les Klein even proposed building a knockoff on top
