History
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The Veins of the City
Stephen Wickens writes about Toronto’s hidden rivers in today’s Globe and Mail highlighting the long fight to restore our urban watersystems...
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Queen West Heritage District Study
The City of Toronto is embarking on a Heritage District study for Queen Street West between University and Bathurst. The study will create an inventory of...
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Spacing reports from Winnipeg
I’m out in Winnipeg leading a workshop on magazine design for Spacing‘s national distributor Magazines Canada. I’ve only been here a...
By Matthew Blackett -
Human River on Garrison Creek
The Human River — a walk along the hidden Garrison Creek Sunday October 2nd 2005, with different starting points along route The Garrison Creek...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto City Hall is turning 40
Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:30 – 10 pm The September 1965 opening of the newly designed City Hall marked an era of architectural experimentation...
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Road construction halted
Last month, housing developers unearthed a native burial ground while widening a road north of Canada’s Wonderland. What is worse, York Region...
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Slipping through the CNE’s spectacle
Spacing associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote about the CNE in this week’s Eye. In keeping with his psychogeographic ways, Shawn wanders through the...
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Ride classic streetcars Aug 20th!
A tip from our friends at the Transit Toronto blog: The TTC will be pressing its fleet of classic streetcars into service on Saturday, August 20, on the...
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Changing tides of Chinatown
From the Toronto Star today: “Community leaders believe two seemingly contradictory goals — clinging to tradition and more savvy marketing...
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Street signs
If you haven’t noticed, over the last few months the city has been installing new street signs to replace some of the rusting and aging wayfinders...
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Neighbourhood walks in west Toronto
Architectural/social historian Alec Keefer, President of Architectural Conservancy Toronto, is leading a series of walks in Parkdale, High Park and the...
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[murmur] wants your Spadina Stories!
[murmur] is happy to announce we have started on our biggest project yet: Toronto’s Spadina Avenue. We are currently searching for and recording...
By Shawn Micallef