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Good articles from the Star & NOW
Some recent articles in the Star are worth posting about: 1. The City wants to crack down on vehicles idling. 2. Royson James writes about the need for...
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Roman Impressions
I have just arrived in Rome, and even after just a day and a half of walking around I’ve already formed some strong impressions of Roman public...
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Queen St. West Heritage meeting
The second Public Meeting for the Queen Street West Heritage Conservation District Study will be held on Wednesday February 22, 2006 — 7:30pm at...
By Dylan Reid -
SPACING: The New City is the old photoblog
Your Monday SPACING.CA feature: Spacing contributor Sean Waisglass scours old bookstores and always seems to turn up interesting gems. This summer he...
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Detroit Blog
My sister in Windsor sent me a link a couple weeks back to the Detroit Blog — I’ve been slowly going through his archives. All things Detroit...
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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...
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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...
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Paul Dotey’s “Bridge”
Local artist Paul Dotey handed me a copy of his six-page zine at the release party of Spacing‘s current issue. I had it on my “must read...
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Nathan Phillips Sq. and a GTA transit authority
Two items from the Saturday edition of the Toronto Star: 1. Nathan Phillips Square renovations: In the words of city councillor, and vice chair of the...
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Union Station Precinct Meeting
As part of the planned renovation of Union Station, the city is holding a “precinct study” to look at how to renovate the area around the...
By Dylan Reid -
Goodbye, Dear Riverdale?
One of the things I love most about Toronto is the way our modern structures sometimes seem to rise straight out of the wilderness of our ravines and...
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Bendale: About Place
In the Globe and Mail’s Real Estate section yesterday, Dave LeBlanc, the Architourist, wrote a piece about the Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit...
By Shawn Micallef