Neighbourhoods
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Bike lanes would help Bloor West Village businesses
The current street design paradigm in this city seems to assume that one of the biggest opponents to bike lanes on Toronto’s major arterials are the...
By Marcus Bowman -
Disco Road: The land that metric forgot
An old street sign in the foreground, with a newer metric speed limit sign and the Disco Road waste transfer station in the background. Disco Road, a...
By Sean Marshall -
Residents propose a fix to Queen streetcar route
As Transit City pushes forward — the Finch LRT was approved yesterday at city council — with the goal of providing reliable public transport to the...
By Marcus Bowman -
GTA’s lost villages: Thistletown
23 Jason Road, Thistletown’s first house, built around 1802 Thistletown, perhaps Toronto’s best-hidden historic neighbourhood, is located at...
By Sean Marshall -
GTA’s lost villages: Agincourt
The brutalist Chelmsford Apartment towers loom over an old village house. This is the first in a series I plan to do over the next little while on the...
By Sean Marshall -
York University Busway: Below the Radar
2009 has proven to be a busy year for transit in the Greater Toronto Area. In Toronto alone, 2009 saw construction begin on the Spadina Subway Extension...
By Sean Marshall -
Karen Stintz, Billboards, and how to get around the Lobbyist Registry
On January 9, 2009, City Councillor Karen Stintz had a business lunch with Les Abro, president and CEO of billboard company Abcon Media. They went to The...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
Informal infrastructure and haunted house in Scarborough
In late September, I had the privilege of sitting in on one of the walkability studies that are taking place in conjunction with the City’s Tower...
By Dylan Reid -
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