In the past, Torontoist has ventured to the geographic centre of the centre of the universe, explored the unseen city, and even pedalled through its sewer system. It was high time for a high-altitude hike. We’re not talking the CN Tower EdgeWalk, either. We trekked to the city’s highest natural point of elevation and, in [...]

Map by Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute. The map of Toronto, above—created by research associates at Richard Florida’s Martin Prosperity Institute, or MPI, and released last week as part of a series of mayoral election–themed research briefs—depicts a city divided not by political affiliation (as the electoral colour scheme indicates), but by occupation [...]

The geographic centre of Toronto. Two months ago, our pals over at Londonist set out to find London’s true geographic centre. Their experiment got us thinking about Toronto’s centre, and how for most Torontonians (Torontoist included) the city’s symbolic heart is somewhere downtown—at an intersection like Bloor and Yonge perhaps? But while downtown Toronto is [...]

In October 2009, nearly two hundred potential names for the area east of the Junction and north of Roncesvalles were chalked along the West Toronto Railpath. Photo by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Torontoist would like to give a big shout out to all our readers in the Junction Triangle. What do you mean, you’ve never heard of [...]

Google Earth image of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, just outside of Atlanta. In the two rooms of Gallery 44 at 401 Richmond Street West, you can see planes take off from Chicago’s O’Hare and Tokyo’s International Airport at the same time. The gallery’s current exhibition, entitled “Google Earth”—running from October 23 to November 28—features a handful [...]

A trip to a thrift store often turns into a stroll through a stranger’s life. Hidden among household items, clothing, or books are stray pieces of the past that the original owner left behind—shopping lists, love letters, business contracts, photographs, etc. During a recent trek to the Value Village at Victoria Park and Van Horne [...]

Photo taken at Trethewey Dr. and Todd Baylis Blvd. on the evening of Wednesday, May 6, by Rami Tabello. Astral Media Outdoor uses Geotargeting Exclusive Solution—a proprietary GIS program mashing up consumer data from Generation5 and cartographic software from MapInfo—in order to allow “you to concentrate advertising faces exactly where your target customers are found. [...]

Photo by Carnotzet from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. North American cities are undergoing a massive change. And it’s not just gentrification, Alan Ehrenhalt writes in The New Republic, it’s a wholesale “demographic inversion.” In Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, and elsewhere, the poor, minorities, and immigrants are being pushed to the outskirts while the affluent—and, in this [...]