Green Space
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LORINC: Pucks, periods, and penalties: Triple Ps for new arenas?
When Giorgio Mammolitti mused last week that council should turn to public-private partnerships to develop new arenas, he was, I’m guessing, thinking...
By John Lorinc -
Could a neighbourhood be carbon-neutral?
“Project Neutral” is a new volunteer-based initiative whose goal is to work with a Toronto neighbourhood towards achieving carbon-neutrality...
By Dylan Reid -
NO MEAN CITY: Designs on a downtown park
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture This year, the redesign of downtown Toronto’s John Street into a...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Street Stories: Brunswick Avenue
The intersection of Bloor and Brunswick is a popular nighttime destination for many Torontonians, offering enough pints and pitchers to make it hard to...
By Eric Mutrie -
Toronto’s future in C40
Cities matter. Spacing readers know that, but it should be argued more often in more places. The argument should be screamed from the rooftops at...
By Jessica Lemieux -
That time Rob Ford voted to create Transit City
Tuesday morning, at a Queen’s Park media scrum, Mayor Rob Ford declared, “As you know, there was never a vote on council for Transit City, and...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
The future of Tower Renewal
The Tower Neighbourhood Renewal plan (aka Mayor’s Tower Renewal) is an ambitious initiative with great potential to increase the quality of life of...
By Adrian Lightstone -
Hope springs eternal at Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner
A young man took the podium near the beginning of the recent Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner for the Living City. He read a poem he wrote about the...
By Jessica Lemieux -
PODCAST: Post-election, post-Katrina, and winter island living
CHECK OUT SPACING RADIO’S NEWEST PODCAST The votes have been counted and Toronto has a new mayor. But what now? We sit down with Alan Broadbent...
By Spacing -
STREET SCENE: Otis
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
IDEAS FOR TORONTO: Mandatory hybrid taxis
My first, and only, experience in one of Toronto’s hybrid taxis was a couple of months ago. I have since been bewildered by the lack of hybrid taxis on...
By Adrian Lightstone -
The Toronto Zoo — out there, on the edge of the city
The following is a reprint of my recent Eye Weekly Psychogeography column where I went to the Zoo. Photo by Jacob Earl. In August one of the Toronto Zoo’s...
By Shawn Micallef