Green Space
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Toronto beaches open today
From the Toronto Star: Toronto’s city beaches officially opened for business yesterday with some city councillors frolicking in the 16C waters off...
By Matthew Blackett -
Native Tree Walk at Brickworks
June 11th 2-4PM Join arborist, Todd Irvine, for a guided tour of the native trees within the stunning quarry and adjacent ravine of the Don Valley Brick...
By Shawn Micallef -
Pooling for Rooftop Solar
Spacing editor Leah Sandals reports: As reported in the Star today, consortiums of Toronto homeowners are pooling together to mass-purchase and install...
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SPACING: Green roof hopping in St. Petersburg
Here is Spacing.ca’s Monday morning article: Dianna Graham takes us on a geurrilla tour of green rooftops in St. Petersburg, Russia. The bustle of...
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Bits and bites about the winning waterfront design
On Friday, we reported that the West 8 design team had won the competition to redesign our Waterfront. Here’s what some of the mainstream media had...
By Ian Malczewski -
Trees in the Sky
Why do so many Toronto street trees die, but as Detroit Blog shows, trees can grow just fine on the top of abandoned skyscrapers. Maybe if we abandoned...
By Shawn Micallef -
Rooftop gardens lecture
Wednesday, May 17th 7:15 pm Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave (1 block south of Bloor/St. George), University of Toronto The Rooftop Gardening Project is an...
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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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Matthew Blackett