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Canadian flags flying high over the CNE midway.
Canadian flags flying high over the CNE midway. - Tanja Tiziana

City Building

Cranes at work along the lakeshore
Cranes at work along the lakeshore - Tanja Tiziana
Toronto was not intended to become the massive city it is today, so its infrastructure and built form are forever catching up to what it has become. Managing the Toronto area's rapid growth has become a major political and planning issue as "getting it right" means preserving the livable neighbourhoods we already have while allowing for appropriate growth. City Building is where architecture, urban planning and civic improvements meet and the kinds of communities we want to live in are created and maintained.

City Building Features

Toronto's film industry: Mongrel Media and Hussain Amarshi Score Again at TIFF

The founder of multicultural Toronto-based and internationally successful film distribution company Mongrel Media is a practical idealist whose newest feature, Score, will open the Toronto International Film Festival next month.read on…

There's a village in that stripmall: a slideshow and essay wandering Wexford's main strip

Wexford used to be a village and though now found in the middle of Scarborough, it still is, but it might not look like you expect it to. Part of our series on neighbourhood strips, take a tour of a Wexford stripmall with Yonge Street's Bert Archer and Tanja Tiziana in words and pictures.read on…

A Different Booklist at Bloor and Bathurst is the independent bookstore that keeps going

A Different Booklist is one independent bookstore that's flourishing by being a community centre for Toronto's Caribbean diaspora.read on…

A city in a forest -- the business of Toronto's urban forest is growing

Interest in Toronto's urban forest is booming, and so are the businesses involved in taking care of it as new programs and companies sprout up all around the GTA. read on…

The evolution of Toronto's Church Street Gaybourhood -- a photo slideshow and essay

For decades Toronto's Church Street has been the centre of the region's gay and lesbian communities, but as the rest of the city becomes more gay and gay-friendly, what does that mean for the Church Street Strip? Yonge Street's Bert Archer and Tanja-Tiziana Burdi investigate in words and pictures.read on…

Where art and architecture meet: the Beyond 3:30 mural program turns schools into canvases

Beyond 3:30, an after school program introducing preteens to architecture and art, turns schools into community hubs and hopes to get a whole new generation of kids thinking about architecture as a career, especially young women.read on…

Q&A with TABIA's John Kiru on Toronto's Best Export: the BIA

Toronto's Bloor West Village Business Improvement Area recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. A world's first in 1970, BIAs have since spread across the city, country and around the world. The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas' John Kiru explains how the idea started and spread.read on…

Eduardo Castro takes care of Toronto's mental and civic health, one person at a time

Eduardo Castro's work with youth, mental health and addiction is all about building long-term relationships and his recent appointment to the Toronto Board of Health is his latest achievement in his civic-minded career.read on…

Have laptop will travel: coworking spaces are the new home offices in Toronto

As Toronto's self-employed laptop-lugging workforce grows, new coworking spaces like Camaraderie in St. Lawrence Market give independent workers a place to be around colleagues and cure their cabin fever.read on…

Monkey Business

After years of dodging security guards and watching their sport go into hibernation each winter, Toronto's parkour community has found a place to crash - literally - at The Monkey Vault, athlete-entrepreneur Dan Iaboni's new gym-playground hybrid.read on…
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