The 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo, have added 5 new sports, one of which is skateboarding. As someone who grew up skateboarding as a teenager, and is all too familiar with being chased out of public spaces, this lends a great… Read More
I used to skateboard when I was growing up and so I have a lot of respect for the sport. This summer, from June 30 to August 12, The Bentway here in Toronto will be working with Build for Bokma and Vans to transform its outdoor… Read More
Boosted — which is a California-based company that makes electric skateboards — has just released a new smaller and more affordable version called the Mini S. Casey Neistat — who helped popularize the original models through his wildly successful YouTube channel — recently vlogged about… Read More
This skateboarding video is incredibly well done. I particularly like the 42 second mark. If you can’t see it below, click here. It’s incredible from a filmmaking standpoint, but – as I have said many times before on this blog – it also showcases the… Read More
There is a deep connection between skateboarding and cities. Skateboarders are constantly surveying the built environment and looking for new and creative ways to engage with it. I think it’s a beautiful way to experience cities. (Sadly, we often respond by making it illegal.) The… Read More
Today, Google is celebrating the famed Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, who died last March (2016) in Miami of a sudden heart attack. She was the first woman ever to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is the prize of all prizes for architects. Here… Read More
I am writing this post on a Porter flight from New York back to Toronto. For my last day in New York, my close friend and I rented scooters and rode all around Manhattan and Brooklyn. It was a great way to cover a lot… Read More
Some of you told me that yesterday’s post on careers was actually quite sad. That it came across as if I were advocating for people, not to do what they love, but to instead do what makes them the most money. But that was not… Read More
Two weeks ago I wrote a post called “Skateboarding and the city.” If you liked that post, I recommend you take a look at this 5 minute video called SKATE Toronto. It’s part of a series where local skateboarders provide a guided tour of their… Read More
The blog of Gehl Architects, called Cities for People, wrote a post this morning called, “Reflecting on Urban Play in Denmark.” It’s a good follow-up to the post I did a week ago called, “Skateboarding and the city”, because in many ways, the example I gave… Read More
