Canadian Urbanism Uncovered
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Two articles in today’s Globe and Mail have contrasting arguments about tall buildings in Toronto and their relationship to public space.
John Bentley Mays addresses Toronto’s fear of heights while Stephen Teeple and Khaldoon Ahmad defend medium density.
Unfortunately neither of the articles address the relationship between real estate values and height which would take some of the mystery out of why developers continue to propose tall buildings in the face of neighbourhood criticism.
WHAT: An evening talking about walking on November 28 at 6PM. WHO: Shawn Micallef, Spacing Sr. Editor, Toronto Star columnist and University College...
By Spacing
Spacing’s senior editor and co-founder Shawn Micallef has expanded and updated his 2010 book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. The...
By Spacing
When College Park (pictured above) formally re-opened, in 2019, the City of Toronto put out a rather breathless press release on what had been achieved in...
By John Lorinc