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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...
By Dylan Reid -
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...
By Stephen Brophy -
STREET SCENE: The Flow
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
POLITICS Top Rob Ford aide Price uttered homophobic slur to CBC reporter [Toronto Star] Holyday and Milczyn drop the gloves in the last week of Etobicoke...
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MOD TORONTO: A sculptural art school at Central Tech
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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Neglected Toronto Suburbs? Modernist Massey Medal buildings say otherwise
There’s a myth perpetuated by some Toronto councillors that former suburban boroughs “get crumbs” while downtown gets gold. It’s completely untrue now...
By Robert Ruggiero -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
OTHER NEWS Food trucks approved for five Toronto parks [Globe & Mail] Toronto’s food trucks driven into the ditch [Toronto Star] Judges, officers...
By Kayla-Jane Barrie -
LORINC: The many faces of Giambrone
If I tried to catalogue the full inventory of Adam Giambrone’s prevarications in the Scarborough-Guildwood by-election, which will be decided on Thursday...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
TRANSPORTATION GO could offer TTC riders faster relief [Toronto Star] Bells keep ringing on new streetcars [Toronto Star] POLITICS Toronto councillor...
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SPACING FILMS: Trenton Terrace, laneway housing in Parkdale
Each Friday, we present Spacing Films — short docs based on articles that have previously appeared in Spacing magazine. The first four films will focus...
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CONCRETE TORONTO: The Don Valley Parkway and suburban growth
Over the next several weeks, Spacing will be publishing a series of articles from Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties...
By Concrete Toronto
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered