Tonight I attended and gave a short talk at a city building themed PechaKucha night here in Toronto. If you aren’t familiar with the PechaKucha 20×20 presentation format, click here. The first PechaKucha night was held in Tokyo, but it has since expanded to over… Read More
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Laneway summit post-mortem
Last night was The Laneway Project’s inaugural summit here in Toronto. And I think it was a huge success. This is what the crowd looked like (don’t forget to check the upstairs balcony area): This is what over 350 people who #lovethelaneways of Toronto looks like! Amazing… Read More
Making city planning cool again
This morning my friend Mackenzie Keast – who is famous and was on the radio in Toronto today talking about The Laneway Project – sent me an interesting article from the Guardian talking about the marginalization and growing irrelevance of city planners. It’s called: For… Read More
Competition for young people under the age of 30 to reimagine public space in Toronto
If you are under 30, you love Toronto and you care about public spaces in this city, I would encourage you to check out the NXT City Prize. It’s a public space competition being organized by a number of local organizations including Distl. (and my friend… Read More