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[URBAN NOTE] "Making the Davenportage"
Torontoist's Josh Wise writes about the aftermath of the Davenportage, up the length of the old First Nations route that is Davenport Road.
This Sunday marked the second, now annual, Davenportage-a 16.5 kilometre portage from the banks of the Humber River skirting the top of downtown Toronto to the Don River. Yes, that’s right: a trek across a ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "The Davenportage is a walk through Toronto’s history and geography"
The Toronto Star's Shawn Micallef writes about a new celebration of Toronto's past.
“Why we do it is a mystery,” says Nicholas Brinckman. “There is no reason to walk across the city carrying a canoe on your back. It’s madness ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "Davenport Village is the little neighbourhood that could"
blogTO's Derek Flack writes about an area that I think encompasses my neighbourhood.
In the same moment when Toronto condo developers are determined to make new neighbourhoods in this city, our old villages rise up in the absence of big development and make their mark on the urban landscape. Such is the case with Davenport Village ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "How Davenport is giving new meaning to gentrification"
NOW Toronto's Daqniel Rotsztain describes gentrification in what may as well be my neighbourhood.
Where I live at Dufferin and Davenport, the modest dwellings of Corso Italia meet the larger houses of Regal Heights ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "Masonic Temple in Toronto sold to IT firm for $12.5M"
I don't have photos of Toronto's Masonic Temple anywhere in my Flickr account, but that lack shouldn't be taken to signify a lack of concern on my part as to what happens to the building. If, as the CBC suggests, the property is to be sold to a company that will keep the handsome building at Yonge and Davenport intact, well done. (I do have some ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "Former notorious highrise now a haven for CAMH, UHN patients"
Lansdowne Avenue above Dupont Street has been getting a fair amount of press recently. First the nuclear fuel-processing plant in the area became the subject of much-belated public discussion, then a fatal traffic accident involving a cyclist at Lansdowne and Davenport brought up bike safety. More recently, and more pleasantly, the apartment tower ( Read more... )
