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  • Active 18 vs. WESTside Lofts

    [Crossposted on the Eye Blog] Back to back press conferences taking place Thursday morning will provide two perhaps contrasting visions for development...

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  • Waterfront takes next step

    From the Toronto Star today: Today, an old cement block warehouse will come tumbling down on King St., east of Toronto’s downtown. The demolition of...

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  • Help Wanted: [murmur]

    [murmur] is looking for help. We’ve got a bunch of new projects on the go, and need someone to help us manage it all. Please get in touch with us if...

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  • Sit-in at Parkdale’s Globe

    Some community members of Parkdale are a little upset that the new World Peace Monument does not include benches. They claim the Parkdale BIA purposely...

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  • Postering & Gentrification

    NOW has two stories worth reading this week: one is on postering and the pros and cons of the newly proposed by-law. Spacing has the exact same concerns...

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  • Ryerson to ‘turn around and face the city’

    From the Globe and Mail today: Ryerson University sits smack in the middle of downtown Toronto, with its back turned to the city. That’s about to...

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  • Toronto People Project

    Neil Gunner wants to talk to you. He started a photo web site called the Toronto People Project. He asks random people if he can take their photo. Most of...

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  • Planning Site of the Day

    Spacing magazine is the planning site of the day today on Cyburbia. Cyburbia is a great planning portal with lots of resources including links, forums...

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  • Adscape

    What is the geographic impact of advertising on our cities? We know that advertising pervades our urban environment but what would a map of advertising...

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  • Active 18 design charrette

    Originally posted on March 1st. This afternoon, Active 18 — the Queen West West community group that’s formed to provide a voice for residents...

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  • Scavenging uTOpia

    When: Sunday February 26, 2-5pm Where: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, free Do you have city savvy? Detective-like determination? Intimate...

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  • Queen Street of Hearts

    Those crazy kids from Newmindspace were at it again — last night/this morning a team of chalker made a mural of hearts along Queen Street West from...

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