Neighbourhoods
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Book launch tonight!
Our friends at the Toronto Public Space Committee are presenting a book launch tonight starting at 7:30pm at the Victory Cafe (on Markham, a block west of...
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Scared of heights
Two articles in today’s Globe and Mail have contrasting arguments about tall buildings in Toronto and their relationship to public space. John...
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What to do with Scarborough RT
There is some real concern about what is going to happen to the aging Scarborough Rapid Transit line. It was built with unique and not-widely used...
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A Summer’s walk along Concord & Delaware
The Toronto Architectural Conservancy presents A Summer’s Walk down verdant Concord & Delaware Avenues on Sunday July 24th at 2PM. Why these...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Beaches Guardian Angel
It is not often that a newspaper does an obituary on a street person, but the Toronto Star did so this past weekend on The Beaches’ Steve Whale...
By Matthew Blackett -
Lost Space on Church
Bert Archer has a new smart blog. He recently posted about the closing of the venerable Second Cup at Church and Wellesley – until recently home to...
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40-storey ROM condo
The Royal Ontario Museum wants to build a 40-storey condominium tower on the current site of the McLaughlin Planetarium, and says it expects the...
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Dufferin Grove + Little Malta
Spacing editor and flaneur Shawn Micallef wrote the City article for Eye this week. And a nice little piece on Dufferin Grove in the “Wandering...
By Matthew Blackett