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Remembering the Great Toronto Fire of 1904
It was a miserably cold night, with bitter gusts of wind and a light snow even though it was the middle of April. And about an hour after sunset, things...
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Good Reads: Spring 2015 Edition of Fort York’s newsletter Fife & Drum
The spring edition of the Friends of Fort York’s quarterly newsletter, Fife and Drum was released recently. Loads of maps and pictures in this issue, and...
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LORINC: Tearing down Gardiner East is all in the numbers
Does the melodrama over the projected two- to ten-minute delay that may occur due to the removal of the lower portion of the Gardiner resemble a farce...
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Toronto politics in a hashtag
It was 2010. The G20 protests were in the news, and Rob Ford was running for mayor. Some of Toronto’s Twitter users took to the web to air their...
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CONTEST: Toronto waterfront t-shirt design challenge
WHAT: Spacing Store presents: Iconic Waterfront T-Shirt Design Contest DEADLINE: Wednesday, May 27th COST: Free! PRIZES: $750 for each winning design...
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The true story of Toronto’s island ghost
They say that on some dark nights, as an eerie mist creeps over the Toronto islands, you can still hear him moaning somewhere in the distance. On others...
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How Toronto learned to love the patio
For all the time Torontonians will spend sipping lager and pinot on patios this summer, it would be easy to conclude that the people of this city have...
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PARKS CRISIS conclusion: 10 ideas to help solve Toronto’s parks acquisition crisis
In May 2014, council gave the city’s planning team the green light to embark on a three-year planning exercise, branded TOCore, that’s meant to figure out...
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PARKS IN CRISIS part 6: Are privately owned public spaces the answer to parks deficit?
Over the next year, City of Toronto politicians and planners will be faced with an unprecedented challenge: how to create amenable public open spaces in...
By Kimberley Noble -
SPACING: Come to our spring 2015 release party!
WHAT: Release party for Spring 2015 issue of Spacing WHEN: Tuesday, April 28th, 7pm-midnight WHERE: The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St., Broadview & Dundas...
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PARKS IN CRISIS part 5: The system worked (slowly) for a west end park
On a warm spring afternoon, the park on the corner of Sorauren and Wabash avenues in the west Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale looks like a perfect dream...
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PARKS IN CRISIS part 4: A tale of two parks
By John Lorinc and Alex Steep Over the past few years, the city has seen a handful of examples of park construction that offer impressive illustrations of...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered