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Mirvish + Gehry sing a new tune: A change of plans for King Street West
My, how things can change. With the recent announcement that Mirvish + Gehry Toronto, David Mirvish’s proposed mixed-use development under the...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 1: The political movements behind the Scarborough Subway
For the last five months Spacing has been investigating the political maneuvering behind the decision to build the Scarborough subway. This is part 1 of 5...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION: Timeline of the Scarborough Subway
For the last five months Spacing has been investigating the political maneuvering behind the decision to build the Scarborough subway. This is the...
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England loved the Group of Seven before Canadians did
This is Entrance to Halifax Harbour. It was painted by the Group of Seven’s A.Y. Jackson right at the very end of the First World War. He’d...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
TRANSIT What do Toronto region transit riders really want? A system that makes sense [Toronto Star] The case of the abandoned TTC bus explained [Globe...
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Door Open Weekend — ghosts, [murmur], maps, & Redesigning Toronto Pecha Kutcha-style
It’s Doors Open weekend in Toronto, the first city to do this and now the largest event like this in North America. This year the them is...
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The story behind the sakura cherry blossoms of High Park
It all started in Japan more than a thousand years ago. People of the Imperial Court began to hang out under cherry trees every spring, taking advantage...
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BIKES: Helmets as a fashion accessory
As they navigate the grid of Canada’s largest city on their two wheels, Toronto cyclists have an excess of helmet choices as the lid gradually transforms...
By Hannah Griffin -
LORINC: Garbage in, garbage out
It’s easy to forget, after the landslide of (political) crud unleashed by the brothers Ford, that our chief magistrate’s checkered mayoral career traces...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
POLITICS Doug Ford vows proof brother is in rehab as new video emerges [Globe & Mail] Doug Ford, not Rob, was at Toronto Tim Hortons, restaurant...
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LORINC: John Tory Q&A on how to pay for transit
With Mayor Rob Ford out of the race, at least for the time being, John Tory suddenly finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to hoover some of the...
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LORINC: In Ontario election what is the lesser of three evils?
By just about any standard of political analysis I can conjure up, the Ontario Liberal Party desperately needs a time-out. But the problem that be-devils...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered