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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Imagining the Green City

    What would our city look like in a world that had gone beyond fossil fuels? It’s an important question, for if we can’t paint a picture of the...

  • ELECTION 2008: Global warming isn’t trying to kill us, and that’s a shame

    Clever graffitti really should inform more of the debate in our federal election. There I was, tearing my hair out trying to understand how anyone can...

  • Living The Good Life

    I’m interested in the thoughts of Spacing readers on The Good Life campaign that WWF-Canada (aka my employer) launched yesterday. Its goal is try...

  • So this is what bike-friendly looks like

    There’s a little something for both the cycling aesthete and her/his inner planning nerd over at The Sightline Institute’s blog. As someone...

  • Toronto’s Climate Plan

    On Friday, Toronto released Change is in the Air, its proposed framework for action on climate change and clean air, and it is a thing of beauty (albeit...

  • Green-collar jobs for Toronto

    I saw a TTC streetcar wrapped in a Diesel Jeans ‘Global Warming Ready’ ad today. My first thought was ‘Can the end be far away?’...

  • Pricing pollution to prevent paving paradise?

    What do carbon markets have to do with explosive population growth in Milton? Maybe a lot. Yesterday, CIBC’s top economist Jeff Rubin came out with...

  • Screening of anti-sprawl film Radiant City

            Sprawl is eating the planet. Across the continent the landscape is being leveled – blasted clean of distinctive features and overlaid with a...

  • Broke and have electric heat?

    It has always bugged me that energy conservation programs are almost exclusively targeted at the relatively well-to-do, who need the help the least. Well...

  • Is City Hall’s climate change buzz for real?

    Spacing is happy to have Keith Stewart join the Spacing Wire team. Keith spent many years keeping tabs on City Hall as a key member of the Toronto...