Neighbourhoods
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Meeting on the fate of the Gardiner & Street Design
Thursday August 11, 2005 starting at 6:30 Location: 115 the Esplanade (near Church St.) East meeting room, ring bell 6:30pm: street design 7:30pm: the...
By Shawn Micallef -
The City as a Playground
Back in Spacing #3 (Work & Play issue, Dec. 2004) we profiled parkour and urban games. The Star and the Globe have recently caught on to these...
By Matthew Blackett -
Suburban homelessness
In the Toronto Star today: “As houses sprout like dandelions in new subdivisions all over the suburban GTA, the regions around Toronto have the look...
By Matthew Blackett -
Home Tours with Darren O’Donnell
As part of the Summerworks festival, Darren O’Donnell’s theatre company brings you Home Tours. Darren will take an audience around the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Street signs
If you haven’t noticed, over the last few months the city has been installing new street signs to replace some of the rusting and aging wayfinders...
By Matthew Blackett -
Neighbourhood walks in west Toronto
Architectural/social historian Alec Keefer, President of Architectural Conservancy Toronto, is leading a series of walks in Parkdale, High Park and the...
By Dylan Reid -
A flâneur manifesto
Shawn Micallef reveals in Eye this week the key to Toronto’s hidden beauty through walking: We’re told, over and over, that Toronto is not...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Saturday: De-Fencing in the Annex!
On Saturday August the 6th, the Downtown De-Fence Project will be liberating eight houses from the strangulation of their rusting, isolating chain link...
By Dave Meslin -
Best Public Spaces in the World
The Project for Public Spaces, a non-profit out of NYC that helps communities and cities build smart public spaces, has an interesting feature on their...
By Matthew Blackett -
Spying on Gated Communities
A group called Heavy Trash has installed “viewing platforms” on the edges of gated communities in Los Angeles. Heavy Trash is “an...
By Michelle Kasprzak -
[murmur] wants your Spadina Stories!
[murmur] is happy to announce we have started on our biggest project yet: Toronto’s Spadina Avenue. We are currently searching for and recording...
By Shawn Micallef -
Parking Lot of Dreams
The Toronto Star has a good story today dispelling myths about public space in the burbs. The dance troupe Rated Inc. reclaims a Jane and Finch area...
By Chris Hardwicke