Green Space
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STREET SCENE: Electric Service Pigeons
These lovers don’t care too much about the pedestrians down below, seen out my kitchen over Dundas. Street Scene will appear each week showcasing...
By Jerry Waese -
Toronto’s new unified zoning bylaw project
I went to an open house at City Hall last night about Toronto’s new zoning bylaw project. It doesn’t sound all that exciting, and the event...
By Dylan Reid -
Imagining the Green City
What would our city look like in a world that had gone beyond fossil fuels? It’s an important question, for if we can’t paint a picture of the...
By Keith Stewart -
Storm City
The storms that rocked Toronto yesterday were wild. I rushed home from the Spacing office to avoid getting drenched and arrived just in time to take a...
By Matthew Blackett -
Storm watch: Sam Javanrouh’s time-lapse
Toronto Lightning Storm from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo. Spacing photo contributor Sam Javanrouh captured a recent lightning storm in a great time-lapse series.
By Matthew Blackett -
From one garden to another: growing Cambridge Gardens
Playter Gardens sits at the northeastern end of the Prince Edward Viaduct, a stamp-sized park bordering Cambridge Avenue and Danforth. Overgrown and...
By Jake Schabas -
STREET SCENE: Quiet Street with Anonymous Garbage
Anonymous garbage bags with disgusting refuse appear with subtlety, as deft fingers disentangle when nobody is looking, but the street scape survives...
By Jerry Waese -
Watch NFB: Wild in the City
Editor: Spacing is pleased to showcase films from the NFB’s online screening room. The NFB will be occasionally posting films here that explore our...
By Matthew Forsythe -
Green roof up on Eglinton West subway station
TTC workers were out watering the new green roof on top of Eglinton West subway station yesterday morning. The 9,000 square-foot garden is planted almost...
By Jake Schabas -
Secret garden at Eglinton Flats
Biking along the Eglinton bridge over the Humber, I spotted a tiny little garden on the eastern bank of the river just north of the bridge. The garden is...
By Jake Schabas -
Urban tree-planting in Toronto
It’s 7am on an overcast Wednesday morning. Zoe and her six co-workers stand underneath a tree along the Humber River, surveying their previous...
By Jake Schabas -
Livable Streets Initiative takes environmental education to the streets
A few weeks ago I came across this video by the Livable Streets Initiative, “an online community for people working to create sustainable cities...
By Ian Malczewski