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Extra, Extra: Poutine, Urban Planning, and Programming Cities
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- Downtown temple of smoked meat Caplansky’s is growing—not to a new storefront, but on wheels. TasteTO is reporting that they have a bicycle lunch delivery service underway, and that in two weeks they’ll have a full-fledged food truck ready to hit the road. Welcome to the summer of poutine.
- Internationally renowned, Toronto-based urban planner Ken Greenberg has just published his first book, Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder. Treehugger and Spacing both have reviews.
- Between the public housing of Lawrence Heights and a small street of postwar bungalows: a small pedestrian walkway that serves as both a physical and psychological boundary. The Toronto Standard takes a look at that path, and the sense of place markers like that can create.
- Is a city’s infrastructure more like hardware—inflexible, an established system which then requires subsequent programming in order to come to life—or more like software, malleable, able to be redeveloped and tweaked to accommodate changing needs? A new essay, “Cities as Software,” examines the analogies, and considers whether revitalizing cities might take less change than we tend to assume.
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