While our friends at Shanghaiist may be on the other side of the world, a taste of China's exponential development is coming to Toronto. A skip away from Spadina's Chinatown, The University of Toronto's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design is hosting [DETOURS], a week of lectures, symposium and the opening of an exhibition, all discussing urban space in China in relation to its rapid transformation. Lecture topics include Impoverished Communities in China (Ou......

Torontoist searched the blogosphere and figured out that people were in love with Nuit Blanche. "This is kind of like Halloween for Adults," Under Sky Blue Sea overheard. We think it might be because he, like so many others, was walking around in the fog installation over by Philosopher's Walk. Sarah B. Hood's verdict is that Fujiko Nakaya's Fog was one of the two best installations that night. Photographer Ashley Hutcheson also took some......