By Dylan Reid
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ARCHIVES: White powder fun
During the holiday season Spacing will re-publish articles previously seen in our print edition. This article appeared in Spacing #3 (Work and Play)...
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Trying a new streetscape on Cherry Street
There’s an interesting streetscape experiment in the works for Cherry St. between King and Lakeshore, part of the new West Donlands development...
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American cities becoming more walkable
The Brookings Institution in the US has recently published a study, “Footloose and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30...
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Help develop Toronto’s walking strategy – and other walking notes
As I’ve noted in passing in some previous posts, the City of Toronto is currently developing a “Walking Strategy” to guide Toronto...
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Fix the 501 Queen Streetcar Forum
The Queen’s crown is slipping. She’s becoming tardy and unreliable. Her subjects have lost faith and are leaving. The Queen streetcar used to...
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Pedestrians crossing mid-block in Toronto: the definitive guide
Last summer, I wrote an article in NOW magazine about pedestrians crossing in the middle of a block, noting that it is in fact legal to do so, so that...
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Greek pedestrians take direct action
We think there’s a lot to do to make Toronto more pedestrian-friendly, but a recent article in the New York Times about pedestrian problems in...
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My stop is …
It’s great to see and hear the automated stop announcements proliferating rapidly through Toronto’s streetcars. Last week, for the first...
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“Building Sustainability” lecture series
A new free lecture and discussion series on “Building Sustainability” is being inaugurated this month by the organization Architecture for...
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Greening parking lots
Surface parking lots are possibly the most problematic use of space in a city — their vast impervious surfaces create runoffs of polluted water...
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New stadium, new space
The University of Toronto’s new, very simple Varsity Stadium at Bloor W. and Bedford has been criticized for not contributing to this rapidly...
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“Steps Towards a Walkable City” — public consultation
The City of Toronto launched a discussion document called “Steps Towards a Walkable City,” without much fanfare, at the beginning of October...