Neighbourhoods
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LORINC: Whatever became of Toronto’s first priority neighbourhood?
Almost a century before the United Way’s Poverty by Postal Code report (2004) begat the City’s “priority neighbourhood” strategy (2006), Toronto officials...
By John Lorinc -
Spacing contributor gets flagged by Toronto Star
Back in our winter 2012/13 issue we showcased the work of Brendan Hennessy who created a series of flags for a handful of Toronto streets (we also...
By Matthew Blackett -
Thinking Local: An Architecture for Humanity Toronto Lecture
This past Tuesday night, I joined a packed house at CSI Annex for the latest of Architecture for Humanity Toronto’s Lecture & Symposium Series on the...
By Nicole Bruun-Meyer -
Play the Walk, April 25 – 28 in the West Queen West Triangle
This weekend, you are invited to Play the Walk – a neighbourhood project for curious citizens, featuring a mobile gift shop in collaboration with Spacing...
By Jay Wall -
Flags for Toronto’s main streets
While Toronto is often called the “city of neighbourhoods,” there is very little visual material that celebrate these areas (outside of customized street...
By Spacing -
IN THIS ISSUE: Tiny House Society of Craven Rd.
This article appears in the current issue of Spacing available on newsstands across Canada In the east end of Toronto, between Coxwell and Greenwood...
By Amber Daugherty -
IN THE ISSUE: Artist creates flags for Toronto’s main streets
While Toronto is often called the “city of neighbourhoods,” there is very little visual material that celebrate these areas (outside of customized street...
By Matthew Blackett -
NO MEAN CITY: A killing, “the projects,” and the new Regent Park
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Terrible news in Regent Park last weekend: the killing of a teenager...
By Alex Bozikovic -
NO MEAN CITY: York University Learning Commons, by Levitt Goodman Architects
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Welcome to September. To kick off this academic year I want to take a second...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Instaflaneur: Scarborough’s hidden arts scene revealed tonight & tomorrow at the Bridging Festival
Here’s Scarborough’s Kingston – Galloway neighbourhood as seen from a helicopter back in July. There’s lots of stuff down there...
By Shawn Micallef -
Community activism not enough to deviate Toronto flight paths
Sheryl Herle awakes at 3 a.m. to a loud, drowning sound of something flying overhead her house. Her two children are sleeping, and she has to be up at 6...
By Amber Daugherty -
Lost Villages: L’Amoreaux
The farming hamlet of L’Amoreaux, which straddled the border between the newly surveyed York and Scarborough Townships was settled in 1816...
By Sean Marshall