Neighbourhoods
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Shops at Don Mills: The Newest Grey Space
Last week, the new Shops at Don Mills opened at Lawrence Avenue and Don Mills Road, in the heart of the pioneering 1950s suburb developed by EP Taylor.The...
By Sean Marshall -
The curious case of Jarvis Street
As Shawn Micallef wrote earlier this month, Jarvis Street has been much abused over the years. It was once one of Toronto’s most elegant streets...
By Dylan Reid -
Two follies don’t make a right, say North Yorkers
North York residents have had more than their fair share of Ontario Municipal Board decisions go against them. It got so bad that last year Willowdale...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Lead a Jane’s Walk
• What: Jane’s Walk 2009 • When: May 2 and 3, 2009 • Where: your neighbourhood, hopefully! Bring Jane’s Walk to your...
By Melissa Iwankewycz -
ASK A PLANNER: Big Box and Leslieville
Spacing introduces a new and sporadic column called Ask A Planner. We’ll ask some of our sources to translate policy and bureaucrat-speak and give...
By Spacing -
OMB says no to big box in Leslieville
Early this afternoon, the OMB sided with the City of Toronto and against the big box proposals in Leslieville. The City sent out the following press...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Parkdale seal: 1879-1889
The 1998 creation of the “megacity”, a merger of all of metro Toronto’s cities and boroughs, was the last in a long line of annexations...
By Matthew Blackett -
Experiments with creating walking maps
I recently had the privilege of observing a fascinating exercise in mapping walking routes in St. Jamestown. Youth from the high-rise district marked up...
By Dylan Reid -
Building Storeys: George Street’s deteriorating past
295 George Street, 2008, by Olena Sullivan EDITOR’S NOTE: Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema will be making a series of posts on structures...
By Gary Miedema -
Losing a sense of “place”
I’ve been clearing out my old files, and I came across an article given to my me a couple of years ago by walking activist Helen Riley...
By Dylan Reid -
AGO Transformation: Alien views and the Toronto look
ED: For the next few weeks Spacing Associate editor Shawn Micallef will be the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog...
By Shawn Micallef -
Events Guide: Regent Park Film Festival
WHAT: Regent Park Film Festival WHEN: November 5-8 WHERE: Nelson Mandela Public School (440 Shuter Street) The festival will feature both community and...
By Mike Bulko