By Shawn Micallef
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Poor NOLA: The violent struggle to rebuild a great city
On his blog yesterday Richard Florida posted “Shades of Robert Moses” and asked “So you thought urban renewal and the destruction of...
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A day in the life of 1975 New York City
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=C-3wza6rnck[/youtube] Despite the wave of happy-urbanism that has gripped a large chunk of the former city of Toronto...
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Summerhill holiday lights and the development iceberg they’re attached to
Last year I wrote about the unique LED holiday lights that run along Yonge Street from Dundas Square up to Alexander Street. They’re back this year...
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Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
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Outside perspective: Toronto grows tall
Back in October we published James Rojas’s mini-essay “Toronto’s Messy Urbanism from the perspective of an Angeleno,” his...
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Bali: Canada, Climate Change, Harper and You
With the release of the Spacing “Green” issue, we have faith that many solutions to the widely-acknowledged-climate-crisis will come at the...
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Phantom Shanghai
Click over to CBC.ca – Arts where photographer Greg Girard narrates a neat slide show of pictures from his book Phantom Shanghai. The book looks at...
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The Death and Life of Great Queen Street
Hot on the heels of the Fix the Queen Streetcar Forum, where the corpse of the once great 501 line was kicked around and administered the defibrillator...
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Series on commuting continues in Toronto Star
This week The Star is featuring a series on commuting. Yesterday’s was particularly interesting, looking at what was alternately termed...
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Voice(s) of the TTC
Last week we linked to an article describing the firing of the woman who does the voice of the London Underground. On Thursday, the National Post had an...
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It was twenty-seven years ago today…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm68UteL0M[/youtube] …that John Lennon was killed in New York. There are many memorials to Lennon on YouTube...
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Stroll: Don Mills & photos from the Moccasin-Rainbow trail
This week’s stroll column in Eye Weekly had me wandering around Canada’s most famous suburb, Don Mills. I remember while growing up Don Mills...