Neighbourhoods
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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 -
Italy!
The above photo was taken at the corner of St. Clair and Dufferin around midnight the day Italy advanced to the World Cup final. I can only imagine how...
By Matthew Blackett -
Fold-Out Guide to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage
 The City of Toronto’s Heritage Preservation Services publishes a really attractive fold-out guide map to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage...
By Dylan Reid -
Distillery is anti-franchise, the airport LINK, and small town efficiency
All articles are from today’s Toronto Star. Distillery avoids sameness: from Chistopher Hume today…. For most visitors, the Distillery...
By Matthew Blackett -
Galloway
Today we’ve been hopping around Scarborough. First, at 7:30AM we were at a Pow Wow at Galloway Park, in the Kingston Galloway neighbourhood...
By Shawn Micallef -
Bike Riding at Jane and Finch
The American screenwriter Marc Norman once wrote an essay called Bike Riding in Los Angeles and how weird that is. I suspect it’s not unlike bike...
By Shawn Micallef -
Cityspace
For the first time in human history more people live in the world’s cities than in the country. CBC radio has created a website dedicated to citiesÂ...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Set a new BENCHmark
If you picked up a copy of Spacing‘s Winter 2006 issue (“The New Beautiful City”) you may have seen an article by Anna Bowness on...
By Matthew Blackett -
Albion Skyline
We’ve watched the day pass by from the parking lot of the Albion Centre. A group of about 100 birds, mostly seagulls, have been pecking at the...
By Shawn Micallef