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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
TRANSPORTATION Metrolinx creating $6.7B LRT ‘mega-project’ too expensive for smaller, local contract bids: critics [National Post] Ontario minister may...
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Simcoe’s vision for Toronto: a city so awesome it would undo the American Revolution
1791. Just ten years earlier, John Graves Simcoe had been fighting on the British side of the American Revolution. He made a name for himself in that...
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MOD TORONTO: The CNE goes Modernist
To coincide with the cover section of Spacing’s summer 2013 issue, we bring you a series of posts by local architect Robert Moffatt that examine...
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A brief history of Dufferin Street
Dufferin Street, looking north at Dupont, 1950. Note the wires for the new Annette Trolley Coach route on Dupont and the level crossing with the busy...
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STREET SCENE: Support for Sammy
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
POLITICS Holyday holds off Liberals’ full-court press in Etobicoke-Lakeshore [Toronto Sun] Public anger hurts Libs at the polls: Wynne [Toronto Sun...
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CONCRETE TORONTO: City Hall’s concrete furniture
Over the next several weeks, Spacing will be publishing a series of articles from Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday
ROB FORD Mayor Rob Ford: Liberals ‘deserve to lose’ byelections [Toronto Sun] Another man linked to Rob Ford scandal freed on bail [Toronto...
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Considering the Bay/Bloor pedestrian scramble
Last night I attended a public meeting about changes to the intersection of Bay and Bloor, including a proposal by the City to remove the pedestrian...
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IN THIS ISSUE: History of playgrounds in Toronto
The Summer 2013 issue of Spacing is jammed packed with a slew of great articles, photos, and interviews focused on Toronto urbanism. This article appears...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
TRANSPORTATION Video Toronto police target e-bike riders in road safety blitz [Toronto Star] POLITICS Former Toronto councillor David Soknacki ponders run...
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STREET SCENE: The Flow
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered