Does the City of Toronto see its network of sidewalks as transportation infrastructure? Officially, the answer is yes.

By Toronto standards, it is a borderline miracle that the Trillium ferry is still operational. Built in 1910, two years ...

The edifice of economic theory constructed over the last two centuries, to an extent in the shadow of physics, has been refuted time and again.” — Michael Batty, Inventing Future Cities Everywhere you ...

There is no shortage of distortion in our public discourse right now. Context-free photos. Selective anecdotes. Partial ...

If Toronto loves movies, movies have not always loved Toronto. While Toronto has had a thriving film industry for several decades, the city has often costumed itself as somewhere else, while movies ...

The October 2026 Toronto election may seem like a long way off, but intentions to run have already been declared and campaign ...

See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...

When the University of Toronto’s John P. Robarts Research Library, located at St. George and Harbord streets, opened its doors in 1973, it was the largest academic library building in the world, ...

When Infrastructure Ontario executes public-private partnership arrangements, there are numerous permutations — design-build-finance-maintain, outright land sales, straight-up contracting gigs (e.g., ...

Farewell Oak Street, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1953, presents a before-and-after picture of the Regent Park development in the 1950s. The film, which was used as a propaganda ...

Dufferin Street, looking north at Dupont, 1950. Note the wires for the new Annette Trolley Coach route on Dupont and the level crossing with the busy Canadian Pacific Railway. Credit: Toronto Archives ...

In 1864, Fydor Dostoevsky wrote his seminal Notes from Underground, a novella exploring existentialism and alienation in a large city – in his case, St. Petersburg – the premise of which in many ways ...