Housing
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Headspace: Tim Jones, Artscape
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
Stories from the Big Apple: In Fine Company
If there’s any takeaway from the recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers report ranking Toronto second behind New York City for the world’s best city for finance...
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LORINC: The Toronto Community Housing Conundrum
Lost amidst all the bleating about chocolates and pedicures and heads bouncing across Nathan Philips Square is a question I hope Jeff Griffiths, the...
By John Lorinc -
NO MEAN CITY: Architecture at Harbourfront, and design week highlights
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture This week, as you may have heard, is design week in Toronto: the Interior...
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Street Stories: Brunswick Avenue
The intersection of Bloor and Brunswick is a popular nighttime destination for many Torontonians, offering enough pints and pitchers to make it hard to...
By Eric Mutrie -
Is Tower Renewal rising again?
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Good news: Tower Renewal may be getting new life. With a new report, Tower...
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NO MEAN CITY: A modern house in a box!
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture A couple of weeks ago, an unusual box dropped in on a corner in Lower...
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Street Stories: Victoria Park Avenue
In the wake of October’s election, much has been made of differences and divisions amongst Toronto’s population. The city’s Victoria Park Avenue is no...
By Eric Mutrie -
The future of Tower Renewal
The Tower Neighbourhood Renewal plan (aka Mayor’s Tower Renewal) is an ambitious initiative with great potential to increase the quality of life of...
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Spacing readers help residents of Wellesley fire
More than three weeks after the high-rise fire at 200 Wellesley Street East, more than 600 of the building’s tenants are still shut out of their homes...
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How would a National Housing Strategy impact our cities?
cross-posted from Spacing Atlantic HALIFAX — National Housing Day was first marked on the calendar by a team of Toronto housing advocates on Nov 22...
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Montreal Monday: Grassroots Appropriations, Past Housing Demolitions, Public Art
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that...
By Jake Schabas