Neighbourhoods
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Weston Residents Demand Improved Transit Vehicles, Route Change
Crossposted with Transit Toronto. A community group based out of Weston, called ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) are holding...
By James Bow -
BikeFriday starts THIS FRIDAY!
Do you know someone who would like to ride their bike to work, but is too nervous to ride in traffic? Have you ever experienced the wonderfully safe...
By Tammy Thorne -
Saturday’s public space headlines
• Roadsworth getting his street cred [ Toronto Star ] • A problem with the Beav on Ward’s Island [ Toronto Star ] • A garden of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Kensington Labyrinth
They’ve painted a labyrinth in Kensington Market, at the corner of Kensington and St. Andrew. I believe it’s part of the Kensington Pedestrian...
By Dylan Reid -
Cambridge Pocket Park
In September 2004, the University of Waterloo School of Architecture relocated into an abandoned factory warehouse in the urban core of Cambridge...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Weekend headlines on public space issues
Christopher Hume has a great piece in the Star today about the redevelopment of Beirut during the 1990s and its connection to Toronto’s waterfront...
By Matthew Blackett -
Withrow Potluck Aug 4
Local TTC booster and provocateur Sean Learner is shifting focus briefly to do something extremely local and hold a potluck near his house in Withrow Park...
By Shawn Micallef -
Vacant Lots: Just Add Water
Spacing’s public art editor Leah Sandals has been a participant in the Vacant Lots exhibition that is running out of the Toronto Free Gallery...
By Matthew Blackett -
Chalk mapping Queen West
From the fellow who brought us the cute little zine of the Bloor Viaduct during the Apocolypse! Paul Dotey maps the Queen West neighbourhood tonight at...
By Matthew Blackett -
Great post on Toronto laneways
Amy Lavender Harris wrote a great little piece on Toronto laneways on the Reading Toronto blog. When it rains, I think of the laneway behind our Junction...
By Matthew Blackett -
The March of the condos
Donovan Vincent writes about new condo towers soon to pop up on Toronto’s railway lands in the GTA section of yesterday’s Toronto Star. Two...
By Dale Duncan -
Should the City buy Jane Jacobs’ house?
From today’s Globe and Mail, an article on whether the city should buy Jane Jacobs’ house: With an asking price of $850,000, the ivy-covered...
By Matthew Blackett