Scarborough

From Oct. 2018 to June 2019, journalists Anita Li and Aparita Bhandari created pop-up journalism and community engagement in Scarborough that invited locals to contribute to stories that combat stereotypes and explore issues like transit and culture. The Discourse Scarborough is now on hiatus.

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Business case: How the public realm and the urban economy go hand in hand

“The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighbourhoods instead of vacuity.” Jane Jacobs [factbox_right] The Doable City Reader There is so much […]

Latest in Scarborough
Why a Wichita developer invests in public space before he even invests in a building
Rebooting the ‘burbs of San Jose, one urban village at a time
How Portland’s beloved food carts transform public space and ask, “What’s next?”
Is road pricing in Metro Vancouver’s future?
What does the “no” vote mean for the future of transportation in the region?
Discourse Media project Moving Forward finalist in international data journalism awards
Hidden assets: Creating public spaces in unlikely places
The Underline

Converting unused land under Miami's Metrorail into a linear park

Network connections: Getting where we need to go