History
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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...
By Dylan Reid -
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 -
King-Spadina Area Plan Review
Last night, I attended a very interesting presentation/workshop about a review of the city’s “secondary plan” (the detailed urban...
By Dylan Reid -
SPACING: 35 Years Without the Spadina Expressway
As part of the City of Toronto’s inaugural Humanitas Festival, a celebration of Toronto’s rich history, Spacing magazine proudly presents 35...
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Union Station Precinct Plan
The Union Station Precinct Plan, prepared by a team of consultants led by Architects Alliance, has been released. It addresses the re-design of the public...
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Help name that street in Corktown
The great historical organization Old Town Toronto 1793 (which has a storefront on King St. East in the St. Lawrence Hall) are hosting a great little...
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Doors Open and the Gladstone remembered
This weekend is Doors Open where we all get to peek inside buildings and places that we are usually too busy to explore (or those pesky security guards...
By Matthew Blackett