Spacing Toronto

Wednesday’s headlines

TCHC TCHC buildings violent ‘drug fortresses’ [Toronto Sun] TCHC officials ‘saddened’ by shooting [Toronto Sun] CITY HALL...

By Mairin Piccinin

Film & Video

Bike-powered urban farming documentary

Filmmaker Sasha Thomas recently released this short documentary on Toronto’s City Seed Farms and its founder Erica Lemieux. Lemieux’s...

By Dale Duncan

Features

STREET SCENE: Morning Snow Dog

Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.

By Jerry Waese

Urban Design

Poster campaign to promote 50 ideas for a new city

Check out these amazing posters that were put up all over New York City to help promote ideas for a new city. The project was launched and hosted by Urban...

By Jonathan Zettel

Headlines

Tuesday’s Headlines

TRANSIT Snow, streetcars and street parking: A perennial recipe for traffic chaos [Globe and Mail] Go Transit, Barrie line Quiet Zone a silent success...

By Kayla-Jane Barrie

History

Richard Serra’s King City Shift revisited — sunrise to sunset

This past fall I revisited the Richard Serra Shift sculpture, found up in King City, and wrote about it in my Toronto Star column. The Ontario Heritage...

By Shawn Micallef

Headlines

Monday’s Headlines

TTC TTC keeping pigeons away from Bathurst station with sounds of distressed birds [Toronto Star] If Toronto wants improved transit, the people will have...

By Kayla-Jane Barrie

Transit

LORINC: The dueling plans for the Downtown Relief Line

Here’s a quirky coincidence: The future of the Downtown Relief Line (DRL) rests, at the moment, in the hands of six women — three politicians and three...

By John Lorinc

Bikes

Urban Planet: Can bike-share programs overcome the helmet hurdle?

Bike-share programs have really been taking off in North America over the past few years, but not in municipalities with strict helmet laws. This article...

By Jonathan Zettel