Green Space
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TTC to reconnect station to its landscape
The TTC has hired a group including noted Toronto architects Brown + Storey to help re-configure Victoria Park station and re-connect it to the ravine...
By Dylan Reid -
SPACING: advertising vehicles
We know that there are lots of Spacing readers who are comfortable with outdoor advertising. We still like you. But we’re sure almost all of you...
By Matthew Blackett -
Island airport debate
The debate for federal candidates held on the waterfront last night showed the animosity towards an Island airport is very much a hot local issue. Nealry...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto’s New Year resolutions
This might be a good time to lay out our wish list for 2006. • Do not approve the EUCAN monster bins: Within the coming months, the City’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto’s Public Spaces in 2005
Both Eye Weekly and NOW ran excellent 2005 year in review features. Here’s the stuff they pointed out that the Spacing Wire thinks is worth...
By Matthew Blackett -
Edible Estates
Growing food in your front yard is unconventional in just about any North American city, but in many places, especially the suburbs, farming your yard...
By Laura Hatcher -
Winter election fun!
Who said a winter election can’t be fun? Spacing contributor and photoblogger-about-town Adam Krawesky [ www.inconduit.com ] captured people in...
By Matthew Blackett -
PARK(ing)
The San Francisco based group Rebar created their own roadwitching by renting a parking space for a temporary park. 70% of public land is devoted to the...
By Chris Hardwicke -
BMX park along the waterfont?
Tomorrow evening (Wednesday, December 14) Councillor Sylvia Watson is holding a community meeting to discuss the idea of building a BMX course at Marilyn...
By Dale Duncan -
Hybrid taxis in NYC
On November 10, 2005 the first hybrid taxi fleet was launched in New York City. The vehicle runs on a combination of gas and electricity and generally...
By Matthew Blackett -
The posters of climate change
Yvonne Bambrick, one of the organizers behind Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, sent along a photo of some of the street art that lined the streets...
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TONIGHT: Ecobunk Awards
Do you ever get upset when you see blatantly misleading advertisements? So does the Toronto Environmental Alliance. Each year they host Ecobunk, a...
By Matthew Blackett