Neighbourhoods
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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 -
Pressure from West-end Waterfront residents working on Watson
In April, the Spacing Wire reported on a plan to turn some waterfront parkland near the newly renovated Palais Royale into a parking lot. The Parkdale...
By Dylan Reid -
King-Spadina Area Plan Review
Last night, I attended a very interesting presentation/workshop about a review of the city’s “secondary plan” (the detailed urban...
By Dylan Reid -
Live, from North York
Hello from historic Gibson house, one of the City of Toronto’s many fine museums. I just went over to the historic plaque, to see why it was...
By Shawn Micallef -
Vacant Lots and Orphan Spaces
There has been a lot of excitement in Toronto recently about the potential of revitalizing the public space of the city. Two new exhibitions are currently...
By Chris Hardwicke