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In my culture, (I’m Jamaican Canadian), instead of saying “goodbye,” we say, “walk good.” This is an expression of care meaning “safe travels” & “be well while navigating public spaces.” Urbanists, feel free to borrow & walk good today :)

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Get out and vote him out!

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We live in the bad place... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said on Monday that in January the program reduced congestion and raised $48.6 million with $11.1 million in expenses and net operating revenue of $37.5 million.” www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...

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Toronto bike-share system reached 6.9M rides last year, up 21pc over the previous year www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

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Notre Dame reborn. France put it back together, and it looks uncanny.

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"Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher has written an insightful piece — with charts! — about "Complete Streets" projects, like the one on Bloor West. Yes, they slowed down traffic. But, uh, that was the point, because fast traffic is dangerous. Doesn’t anyone remember that whole Vision Zero thing?"

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"Our buildings were designed for a climate that no longer exists; the impacts will range from incredibly uncomfortable to increasingly deadly." In @azuremagazine.bsky.social, an excerpt from @holz-bau.bsky.social's excellent new book, Building for People.

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23 incidents of cars blocking streetcars in the span of 10 hours is insane... Streetcars deserve their own right of way and until then, deserve to have traffic laws enforce aggressively and swiftly against illegally parked cars.

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#IdeasAtWork Urban Activity Atlas via @uoftcities.bsky.social Using mobile location data, we've created an atlas of the 300 most populated metro regions in the U.S. & Canada, and mapped the parts of each city that people congregate and spend most time in schoolofcities.github.io/urban-activi...

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the ontario liberal transit plan, now with a map! let's dive in: -multiple new go lines or extensions, but without service details, they may just be low-value peak hour commuter rail. -all day milton service is popular and great, and needed to happen decades ago. 1/5

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The average Canadian university receives just over $16,000 per student. Ontario commits the very least, at just over $10,000. We’re now living with the results. thelocal.to/ontario-post...

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My it’s too cold to bike season is over after 24 days ✌️ We’re so back

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The #PCPO launched their plan this morning which not surprisingly boasts about removing bike lanes on Bloor, University, and Yonge while restricting where new ones can go. If you believe in safe streets, you NEED to #VoteFordOut in three days! #BikeTO #ONpoli #ONDP #OLP #GPO ontariopc.ca/our-plan/

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It is absolutely wild how much misinformation is circulating online. I’m spending almost as much time researching & fact checking social media posts as I do in my professional practice and academic contexts. Any suggestions for quick verification of info before liking, or worse, sharing?

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Finally visited the new Racoon Park today!

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From the vaults: On Jamaican Patty Day, a look at the Toronto Patty Wars. #history #torontohistory jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/t...

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Touring the modern #architecture of one of Portugal’s most celebrated architects Alvaro Siza. This is Piscina das Marés (1966), a swimming area carved into the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in Matosinhos …

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It is laughable but also sad that the TTC Subway still doesn't announce connections with GO train lines. A lot of them are running fairly frequently and tons of people are riding, why must we make it harder for people than it needs to be?

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"There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote." -David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008) via A Word A Day

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Also, @uoftcities.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!!! Looking forward to seeing them start posting.

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Very cool: @uoftcities.bsky.social is hosting a month long Workshop in Urban Data Storytelling this summer. The cost is $875, with needs-based considerations + a 20% early bird discount. Might be of interest to some of you working in urban advocacy roles!

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Enclosure; variety within consistency. Place Dauphine (1607) and its celebrity sibling Place des Vosges (1605). #paris #urbanism #architecture #urbandesign

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Ontario votes this Thursday, February 27th. Wasting taxpayer money to tear out safe bike lanes is reckless and dangerous. On election day, send a strong message: no city has ever solved congestion by prioritizing cars—bike lanes should remain a municipal decision.

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Fire alarm annunciator in my building, made in Canada. Canadian regulators have hitched their construction industry to the U.S. by forsaking European-turned-global standards in favor of American ones. So now if you lose the U.S. as an export market, nobody else will be able to buy this stuff.

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Oh, hey, former NYC transportation czar is on here

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Headline: Can we vote smarter in this election? Me: Can we just vote in this election?! Ontario's apathy is a problem. #Onpoli

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Fantastic paper from @shoshannasaxe.bsky.social et al on the misguided notion that tall buildings have higher embedded GHGs -- they do, but the difference is swamped by the road, sewer and other infrastructure needed to support more, shorter buildings. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

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With the provincial election rapidly approaching, @moreneighboursto.bsky.social has graded what each party has put forward on housing. (Surprising nobody, Doug Ford's Conservatives are at the bottom) #onpoli #housing #yimby www.moreneighbours.ca/news/analysi...

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This is unprecedented. The Rising Tides agreement was just with the province, but adding federal recognition in is a big deal. This is the first time Aboriginal Title land has been negotiated, rather than litigated in Canada.

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One marker of the modernization of rail is the evolution of station design. Although most stations have existed since the 19th century, their layout and functionality have evolved through discrete improvements. This diagram shows an idealized evolution of a minor Italian station along a trunk line.

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I have been remiss to posting on here, but I figured my first visit to Rideau Hall is a good occasion to get back on track. Pictured here are the appropriately named Tent Room and the ballroom.

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HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) may lose most of its employees in Musk/Trump’s cuts. My organization was recently selected for a PD&R grant (now iffy) to quantify plumbing code efficiencies that could be enacted by state and local governments. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g...

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