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REID: Re-engineering road standards for cities
For a long time, road engineering standards have been a bane of good city-building. Generally designed to enable cars and trucks to travel safely at high...
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LORINC: Subway Nation rises again
Ever the shrewd tactician, Prime Minsiter Stephen Harper delivered one heck of a chess move yesterday when he and finance minister Jim Flaherty announced...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
TRANSPORTATION Feds pledge $660 million for subway [Now Magazine] Ford says Sheppard subway is next on plate [Toronto Sun] Council’s Scarborough...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
TRANSPORTATION Feds to help fund Scarborough subway [Toronto Sun] Ottawa leaves it to provinces and municipalities to handle railway safety [Globe &...
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Spacing at Word on the Street this Sunday!
This Sunday marks the annual Word On The Street book and magazine festival at Queen’s Park. And as usual, Spacing will be out in full force with...
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Sam’s Sign: Giant neon records need good home
“We had a deal,” was the constant refrain as city councillors and deputants alike grilled representatives of Ryerson University and Heritage Preservation...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
TRANSPORTATION Metrolinx’s ‘noise walls’ have no place in Toronto: Hume [Toronto Star] Gardiner Expressway closed all weekend for maintenance...
By Julie Fish -
One of Toronto’s most famous early monuments — and its connection to Sam the Record Man
It was one of Toronto’s most famous early monuments — so well-known to locals that many simply called it the Monument. It was erected in 1939, in...
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LORINC: The Wychwood Barns, Sam’s sign, and how we know what heritage means
Not long after I moved into the St. Clair West area, in the mid-1990s, I heard about a City-run consultation on the future of the long shuttered TTC car...
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Come to our fall issue release party!
WHAT: Spacing’s fall 2013 issue launch party WHEN: Wednesday, September 25th, 6pm-10pm WHERE: Institute Without Boundaries, 230 Richmond St E, suite...
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Q&A with Josh Matlow: #TOpoli meets #BOpoli
There’s something different about Josh Matlow. The conciliatory-or-die Toronto city councillor has been a little more blunt, as of late. “Toronto...
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York Region’s Rapidways: the good, the bad and the ugly
Viva Purple bus on new Highway 7 Rapidway I recently visited the first completed section of “Rapidway”, York Region Transit’s moniker...
By Sean Marshall
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered