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By Gene Anderson, Our Oakland
Sunday a group met near the Lake Merritt BART station for a Jane’s Walk. Jane Jacobs was an urbanist, activist and author. She’s probably best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities which argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city dwellers. Each year since her death in 2007, people around the world gather for walks in her memory.
This walk was led by Himy, an Oakland Wiki contributor and neighbor of Jane Jacobs from Toronto. Although he …
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SPPG at U of T : Thank you @HiMYSYeD for this #storify on the Hudson Yards “Big City, Big Ideas” talk
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BCBI • cities • Global City Indicators • Hudson Yards • IMFG • Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance • NYC • School of Public Policy and Governance • SPPG • Storify • Twitter • UofT • Urban Strategies
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From Condo.ca
One of Toronto’s most famous citizens, Jane Jacobs died in 2006, but her legacy lives on in many ways, including the annual Jane’s Walk that takes place this weekend in Toronto and in 68 cities around the world. It’s a fitting way to remember the great urban theorist—the date is chosen to coincide with her May 4 birthday—who believed that the health of cities depended on the involvement of citizens in the life of their neighbourhoods.
Way back in 1957 when urban planning in …
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1957 • cities • GRAFFITI • hipsters • Historic • jane jacobs • Jane's Walk • Ossington • parkdale • Retracing Stop Spadina • Spadina Expressway • The Death and Life of Great American Cities • urban planning • Yonge Street
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Cycling advocates aim to grow awareness amongst candidates of cyclists’ concerns with current conditions.
By Yvonne Bambrick, Toronto Cyclists Union
Toronto, September 27, 2010 – In an effort to share the daily experience of thousands of cycle commuters, the Toronto Cyclists Union led 8 of the Mayoral Candidates on a 30 minute rush-hour commute by bicycle this morning. Candidates were invited to share their experience & plans with the media at a 9:15am press conference following the ride.
Yvonne Bambrick, the Toronto Cyclists Union’s Director of Communications led today’s 20 person ride …
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Bicycles • Bike Lanes • Bikeway Network • Candidates • capacity • cities • Commuters • Complete Streets • Congestion • construction • Curbside Cycle • cycling facilities • cycling infrastructure • Cyclists • Daniel Walker • Deputy Mayor • Dewitt Lee • George Smitherman • Helmets • HiMY SYeD • Jarvis Street • Joe Pantalone • Keith Cole • Lanes • Mark State • Martin Reis • Mayor Sam Adams • Mayoral Candidate • Montreal • New York City • North America • Portland • Press Conference • Public Education • Race 4 Mayor • Rickshaw • roads • Rob Ford • Rocco Achampong • Rocco Rossi • Rush-Hour • Sarah Thomson • Separated Bike Lanes • side streets • Taxpayers • Toronto Cyclists Union • Toronto Police • Traffic • Transportation • Transportation Services • Urban • Urbane Cyclist • Wards • Winters • Yvonne Bambrick
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By Dawn Danby, WorldChanging
When Subtle Technologies came back to Toronto this summer, it created another temporary safe zone between the divergent worlds of scientists and artists (layered with a heavy dose of academia). Architects show off the unbuilt and unbuildable, artists work with nanotech, and geneticists look at microscopic patterns in order to ponder fate.
This time around the focus was on Responsive Architectures – the way that natural and artificial structures change, adapt, and relate to one another. The very small structures …
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3D • Architects • Architecture and Urban Research Laboratory • Artists • Biomimicry • Boo Chapple • CAD-CAM Baroque • cerebellum • cities • Citruskraft • civic • Daffodils • Donald Ingber • ecosystems • Exchange • Exchange Project • Free Trade • geneticists • Gheorghe Dan • holarchic • identity • Interspace • John Storrs Hall • Lemons • México • Nancy Nisbet • nanotech • Near Near Future • neobiological • Parametric Modeling • Peter Hasdell • programmable matter • Responsive Architectures • Robarts • Scientists • self-organizing systems • sound artist • Sound Gardens • Steven Vogel • stewardship of urban nature • Subtle Technologoies • surveillance • Terra-iser • Trade • U.S. • UofT • Val Rynnimeri • Worldchanging
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The Wealth of Cities
HiMY SYeD is sending reports about the World Urban Forum to the Spacing Wire. Here is his third report.
A thousand people are squished in and outside of Ballroom C of the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel. 15 minutes of polite negotiation through the crowd, yet I have barely weaved into the ballroom proper. UN-Habitat Award winner John Friedmann is delivering his special lecture as part of the first annual UN Human Settlements Lecture series:
‘The Wealth of Cities: Towards an Assets-Based Development of Urbanizing Regions’.
In John Friedmann’s worldview, the traditional divying up of …
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It is the first day of the World Urban Forum. 6,000 people were expected. 8,000 registered. Even more are here.
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cities • curitiba • day one • jane jacobs • neighbourhoods • nepal • public space • slums • urban decay • urban growth • vancouver • World Urban Forum • wuf3
