Daily Archives: July 23, 2013
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The Great Toronto Stork Derby — why the city went baby crazy during the Great Depression
It all started on Halloween in 1926. That’s the day Charles Vance Millar died. He was a rich Toronto lawyer and financier — best known for modernizing a...
By Adam Bunch -
STREET SCENE: Board Man
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
REID: Toronto is not a grid
We usually think of Toronto — at least the older part of it — as being based on a grid of streets. One of the city’s free weekly newspapers even...
By Dylan Reid -
MOD TORONTO: Three space-age apartment buildings by Uno Prii
To coincide with the cover section of Spacing’s summer 2013 issue, we bring you a series of posts by local architect Robert Moffatt that examine...
By Robert Moffatt -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
TRANSPORTATION TTC policy paints employees as dishonest, says union head [Toronto Star] Road closures: Gardiner losing two eastbound lanes [Toronto Star...
By Stephen Brophy