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EVENT: Listen to Toronto at Labspace Studio’s “The Noise Project”
WHAT: The Noise Project by Labspace Studio WHERE: 99 Gallery (99 Sudbury Street, in the West Queen West Triangle) WHEN: Friday, July 26, 6pm-12am and...
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LORINC: Taking new streetcar out for a spin
Riding the TTC’s new LRV on its maiden daylight voyage down Bathurst Street yesterday was a bit like taking a very showy sports car out for a spin. Heads...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Rethinking public consultation systems
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 TTC: Media enjoy preview ride aboard new streetcars [Toronto Star] Mayor Rob Ford paints curbs red for Toronto traffic project [Toronto...
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The Great Toronto Stork Derby — why the city went baby crazy during the Great Depression
It all started on Halloween in 1926. That’s the day Charles Vance Millar died. He was a rich Toronto lawyer and financier — best known for modernizing a...
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STREET SCENE: Board Man
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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REID: Toronto is not a grid
We usually think of Toronto — at least the older part of it — as being based on a grid of streets. One of the city’s free weekly newspapers even...
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MOD TORONTO: Three space-age apartment buildings by Uno Prii
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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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
TRANSPORTATION TTC policy paints employees as dishonest, says union head [Toronto Star] Road closures: Gardiner losing two eastbound lanes [Toronto Star...
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Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
TRANSPORTATION Ontario transport minister and TTC chair patch things up on live TV [Globe & Mail] TTC launches internal whistle-blower program...
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Amazing drawings from 1949 of TTC subway construction
While plowing through thousands of images in the City of Toronto’s archive database I came across a series of illustrations by John DeRinzy that...
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LORINC: Why City Council’s Scarborough subway is another undecision
Okay, so now what? After last week’s multi-act debacle, the question hovering over Toronto city council’s Scarborough subway gamble is the obvious one...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered