Infrastructure
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Toronto launches pilot project to improve safety the visually impaired
Walking Toronto’s streets can be dangerous for any pedestrian, but it can be especially hazardous for the visually impaired. The City has launched a...
By Andrew Russell -
EVENT: Transport Futures Governance Summit
The folks at Transport Futures are offering Spacing subscribers a 15% discount on their upcoming Governance Summit, which takes place November 19th at the...
By Dale Duncan -
NO MEAN CITY: Andrew Blum plumbs the Internet
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Most days, I spend all day and much of the evening lost in the internet. Lost...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Joint project puts solar panels on City-owned roofs
The City of Toronto and Toronto Hydro will be sharing the $6–million cost to install solar panels on City-owned roof tops. By year’s end, ten...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Humber footbridge lit up with “critters”
Large, organic shaped creatures hang from cables on the Humber Bridge, just feet above the heads of pedestrians crossing the river. There is something...
By Amber Daugherty -
Instaflaneur: LCBO Summerhill lights it up at night
The LCBO / Summerhill train station palace is lit up nicely at night, like so many buildings in Europe and the U.S. I wrote my Star column a few weeks ago...
By Shawn Micallef -
A sign of things to come if the Jarvis Bike lane is removed
Jarvis Street is undergoing some construction right now and this innocent sign doesn’t have any idea of the civic strife it’s inadvertently...
By Shawn Micallef -
Bike Infrastructure: Let’s sweat the small stuff
This past weekend I went with a few friends on a long bike ride down the trails along the Humber River, east along the waterfront, and up Strachan Ave. to...
By Jake Tobin Garrett -
Laneway housing: Communal backyard at Queen and Manning
EDITOR: This is a post in our series looking at the laneway housing projects created in a University of Toronto Architecture Faculty’s Laneway...
By Shawn Micallef -
FAVOURITE FRIDAY: What is your favourite pedestrian bridge?
Across the Spacing urban blog network each week we’re asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us...
By Spacing -
Headspace: Jeremy Guthrie, Major League baseball player and urban cyclist
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 -
What is your favourite bridge in Toronto?
During my coast-to-coast road trip this summer (I’ll have more posts on the trip over the coming weeks) I crossed over a wide variety of bridges...
By Matthew Blackett