Green Space
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Green space for the living
Last week, the Toronto and East York Community Council shot down a plan to build a 24,000-square-foot visitation center in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. This...
By Dale Duncan -
It’s Car Free Day… do you know where your councillor is?
Cross-posted from Spacing Votes — by Claire Salloum September 22 (today!) is International Car Free Day. This year in Toronto, the city is having...
By Spacing -
Re-imagining Lamport Stadium
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes — post by Julia Lo Unless you play field hockey, it’s likely that most of you have never been to Allan A...
By Spacing -
Toronto’s garbage woes answered?
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes I sometimes watch City Council meetings on Rogers. Today I turned it on and found councillors debating whether to buy a...
By Matthew Blackett -
Dufferin Grove Park is building a place to pee
Everyone seems to like Dufferin Grove Park, and it’s not hard to understand why. They’ve got outdoor bread ovens, a community garden, snack...
By Dale Duncan -
The lost city of Chernobyl
I stumbled across a site with a batch of images from Chernobyl. Besides being abandoned, the city has also become a haven for graffiti artists. Also worth...
By Matthew Blackett -
Burning for Sweden
Now that a deadline has been set to stop trucking Toronto’s garbage to Michigan, the problem of what to do with the city’s trash is on the...
By Dale Duncan -
Hume’s Stockholm Syndrome II
Christopher Hume is on a Stockholm kick. Today in the Toronto Star he writes about Hammarby Sjostad, a waterfront community built over the last decade on...
By Matthew Blackett -
Vancouver and Victoria public spaces
Andy Reeves will be covering ad creep and streetscape issues during the 2006 election for the Spacing Votes blog. Here’s a report by Reeves from his...
By Spacing -
Monarchs everywhere!
Monarchs, monarchs, everywhere! From today’s Star: They’re suddenly everywhere — majestic black and orange butterflies fluttering in...
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Tuesday’s headlines
• Follow the leader game just unfair to challengers: Royson James has a good piece in the Star today about the upcoming city election...
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A New Solar Power
What if every window in the financial district could be transformed into a translucent solar power generator, powering anything from the lights to the...
By Ian Malczewski