Features
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Gift Guide: T-shirts from the 416, 514 and 604
As some of you have read in our current issue, we have a new feature called Public Goods where we feature Toronto- and urban-inspired products. A few...
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thinkTORONTO goes to City Hall
WHAT: thinkTORONTO winners exhibit WHEN: Monday, January 12 to Sunday, January 18, 2009 WHERE: Toronto City Hall Rotunda (main floor), 99 Queen St. W...
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Road Trip: Morgantown, West Virginia
Beechurst PRT Station with WVU Downtown Campus behind On a recent road trip to Pittsburgh, I decided to drive an hour south and a bit to cross the...
By Sean Marshall -
Gift Guide: Toronto’s Distillery District — History by the Lake
A new book by Toronto archivist and historian Sally Gibson explores the Distillery District — “History by the Lake” — from its...
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Gift Guide: Spacing’s holiday gift packs
For the fourth year in a row, Spacing is offering a unique product that almost no other magazine offers. We take the three issues of Spacing published in...
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Gift Guide: City Walks – Toronto
City Walks: Toronto is a nicely-designed collection of 50 solid cards in an attractive box. Each compact card (4-1/16 x 5-5/8) has on one side a map with...
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First test of sidewalk snow-and-ice clearing
As Torontonians negotiated snowy and icy sidewalks this past week, some were no doubt reminded of the problems the city had last winter with clearing...
By Dylan Reid -
Spacing t-shirts for sale at anniversary party
If you’ve been indecisive about whether or not to come to Spacing’s anniversary party Wednesday night, maybe the following bits of information...
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Spacing’s holiday gift packs
For the fourth year in a row, Spacing is offering a unique product that almost no other magazine offers. We take the three issues of Spacing published in...
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Kingwell vs. Florida?
In an article in The Walrus earlier this year, Mark Kingwell referred to fellow urban thinker/public intellectual/University of Toronto professor/sometime...
By Dylan Reid -
Architecture Fetish: By George!
Toronto is a Georgian city. It’s our first architectural style and the basis of our city’s grid plan. There may not be much of it around...
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New transit shelters eating into sidewalk space
New TTC shelter at Queen West and Peter In recent weeks, while walking on routes which have been familiar to me for years on Queen Street West and Hoskin...
By Dylan Reid