Neighbourhoods
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Short-term pain for long-term…pain
This past weekend, newspaper headlines were warning Toronto that 2010 would be the year that the city budget is cut to pieces. As the Globe reported, city...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
JOHN LORINC: A Graveyard for Small Businesses and other Urban Myths
Business groups come in various flavours and their messages run the gamut from insightful to irritating. My least favourite is the Canadian Federation of...
By John Lorinc -
OPPI / CIP Conference: LEED-ing by Design
Spacing contributor Ian Malczewski spent September 30 – October 3 in Niagara Falls at a joint conference held by the Ontario Professional Planners...
By Ian Malczewski -
Pages in retrospective
Editor’s note: At Afterword, the wake held for pages books on Tuesday night, a number of folks came up to say what the store meant to them. As Matt...
By Shawn Micallef -
Pages: an afterword
Pages owner Marc Glassman and Pages staff throughout the ages Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate 30 years of Pages Books and Magazines at the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Rockin’ a U-Haul in a changing Annex
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JJ7vv3QCfs[/youtube] On my way home after work last Saturday night, I walked by the corner of Brunswick and Bloor...
By Jake Schabas -
Cities for People: Visual Identity of South Alderwood & West Long Branch
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class was...
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Fiery photography from up high
Occasionally on this blog, I’ve talked with pride of my 24th-floor balcony view in the deep south of Parkdale. Mostly I brag about watching storms...
By Matthew Blackett -
Cities for People — Main Square
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class was...
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Cities for People – Crescent Town
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLV0FIxCRps[/youtube] This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer...
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Cities for People: The Melancholy of East Chinatown
This is the first in a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class...
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South East Scarborough Pow Wow
“From the rez to the city, my people are you with me? You’re tuned in to the chief of the concrete city,†rapped hip-hop artist Wabs Whitebird...
By Emma Feltes