Green Space
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Event Guide: 5th Annual Human River
WHAT: 5th Annual Human River WHEN: Sunday, October 25 @ 1pm WHERE: Meet at 12:30pm at the Pavilion at Christie Pits Human River is an ongoing Toronto...
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OPPI / CIP Conference: LEED-ing by Design
Spacing contributor Ian Malczewski spent September 30 – October 3 in Niagara Falls at a joint conference held by the Ontario Professional Planners...
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New ways of thinking about cities and policy making
“Every time you do something in the city, don’t just do it, do it beautifully.” A seemingly simple statement made by Joe Berridge at...
By Nicole Bruun-Meyer -
LEAF’s final tree tour for 2009: St. James Town
WHAT: LEAF’s last tree tour for 2009 WHEN: Wednesday, September 23 @ 6pm WHERE: St. James Town. Meet at northwest corner of Winchester Street and...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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