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The Washington, D.C.–area tool maps your route and explains how healthy, wealthy, and green it will make you.
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Peter Goffin
Lessons in urban innovation, gleaned from a week spent in the Spanish city.
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Peter Goffin
Seven residents of Homes First shelters and housing have been nominated for a bursary recognizing their visual art, music, and crafting.
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Peter Goffin
Memories of working with one of Canada's leading advocates for rights and freedoms.
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Peter Goffin
A pair of British companies have created "Responsive Street Furniture" that digitally adapts crosswalks and streetlights to accommodate people with disabilities.
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Peter Goffin
A Kingston-based researcher says our potholes could be prevented by changing the way asphalt is made. The issue is a lot more controversial that you'd think.
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Peter Goffin
Planned Parenthood Toronto and a Davenport community health centre have partnered to offer drop-in service to teens and twentysomethings, 12 hours a week.
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Peter Goffin
A U.S. web series hopes to teach city slickers about farming, preserves, and DIY crafts. Here in Toronto we're already on the way, thanks to a growing passion for the "authentic."
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Peter Goffin
The best questions, answers, and calls to action from a summit of local leaders.
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Peter Goffin
Barcelona is building a traffic bridge out of pollution-neutralizing concrete. Chicago has paved a road with it. Could Toronto adopt the trend?
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Peter Goffin
Parts of Toronto have experimented with car-free days, but Madrid hopes to get vehicles out of its city centre by 2020.
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Peter Goffin
The US government challenged automakers to build an eco-friendly tractor trailer. Here's how they rose to the challenge, and why our local government can too.
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Peter Goffin
As Toronto anticipates worse storms and more flooding, Boston's Deer Island wastewater facility has planned for the worst.
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Peter Goffin
Amsterdam's marketing pros want more tourists to visit the outer reaches the city's greater metropolitan area.
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Peter Goffin
British researchers have created an algorithm that scans images of roads to find signs of surface deterioration.
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Peter Goffin
The Detroit Blight Removal Task Force enlisted a tech startup to create an app for reporting abandoned and derelict properties.
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Peter Goffin
Portland has told its city planners to scrutinize development proposals for neighbourhood compatibility, nature preservation, and other factors. Here's why Toronto can't be that firm.
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Peter Goffin
Lexington, Mass., is being recognized for increasing multiculturalism in civic leadership. Here's why Toronto could and should be doing the same.
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Peter Goffin
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