Green Space
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Heritage Toronto walks Saturday and Sunday
As part of this month’s Festival of Architecture & Design, Heritage Toronto is leading numerous different walks throughout the city. Each walk...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Natural City
The University of Toronto’s Centre for Environment is holding a conference called The Natural City May 31 – June 2, with Stephen Lewis as the...
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China to Build Eco-City
In our “History of our Future” issue of Spacing, we ran several articles about ideal, sustainable city ideas, including an...
By Dylan Reid -
Greening our cities
Fred Kent, director of Project for Public Spaces out of New York, has a great column on how Placemaking can reinvigorate the environmental movement. The...
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The suburban urban forest
In Sunday’s Toronto Star, Kenneth Kidd has a great piece about the urban forest in suburbia: …The houses duly go up, some of that topsoil gets...
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Council Sidesteps Dog Decision
What is the public space conflict that arouses the most intense passions in the largest number of people? Is it cyclists versus motorists on our streets...
By Dylan Reid -
Port Lands tour, Port Lands Energy Centre protest
(crossposted on the Eye Blog) This Saturday, the The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation (TWRC) is holding public tours of the Port Lands...
By Dale Duncan -
Motorhead Beachhead
The Beaches vs. The Beach is not the only battle on the beach in Toronto — a coalition of Parkdale community groups is trying to stop a waterfront...
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Public space catch-all post
Here are a number of articles from the last few days: Trash: A recommendation that York and Durham regions’ trash be incinerated will likely cause...
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A Toronto “What If?”
Today’s Toronto Star has a great section called “What If?” It is very much like our “History of our Future” issue from last...
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Conflicting views of T.O.’s waterfront and engery needs
Robert Ouellette had a good post on Reading Toronto yesterday (with some good links, too): “Why is it that whenever Toronto begins to improve the...
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Public space in the news today
Here are a few links to articles in today’s papers: The TTC is going shopping for new streetcars. The photo above, from Minneapolis, is the new...
By Matthew Blackett