History
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Saturday’s public space headlines
• Roadsworth getting his street cred [ Toronto Star ] • A problem with the Beav on Ward’s Island [ Toronto Star ] • A garden of...
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Blackout in Kensington
Today is the anniversary of the 2003 Blackout. Though it was extremely hot that night, it was also one of the best days I have ever experienced. I have...
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Toronto street signals introduced 81 years ago today
southwest corner, Yonge and Bloor, 1923. On this day in 1925, Toronto got to use street light signals for the first time at the Yonge and Bloor...
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Friday’s headlines before you leave for the long weekend
• The Way We Were: Simcoe Day history [ Toronto Sun ] • Up on cripple creek [ National Post ] • NYC group flunks T.O.’s waterfront ...
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Today’s public space headlines
BB King at the rebuilt Colonial Tavern, 1977 • City’s oldest firehall show its age [ Globe and Mail ] • Construction begins on new...
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Great post on Toronto laneways
Amy Lavender Harris wrote a great little piece on Toronto laneways on the Reading Toronto blog. When it rains, I think of the laneway behind our Junction...
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Toronto’s street signs
In the Winter 2006 issue of Spacing, I wrote about the new street signs that the City is implementing. Here’s an excerpt: There are some good things...
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Should the City buy Jane Jacobs’ house?
From today’s Globe and Mail, an article on whether the city should buy Jane Jacobs’ house: With an asking price of $850,000, the ivy-covered...
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BBC Radio: “Making Cities Work”
BBC World Service radio has an interesting series called “Making Cities Work“, available for listening in streaming or downloadable formats...
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SPACING: CN Tower anniversary & the highest free-standing poster
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the CN Tower. For many of us it is just part of the city’s skyline, but it dramatically remade the image of this...
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Fold-Out Guide to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage
The City of Toronto’s Heritage Preservation Services publishes a really attractive fold-out guide map to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage...
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Under Bathurst Bridge
In the most recent issue of Spacing, David Fontaine wrote about the view of Fort York from under the Bathurst Street Bridge, the closest approximation of...
By Dylan Reid