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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 082, Toronto’s political gridlock
In This Episode: Doug Ford to ban bike lanes, Toronto cyclist throughout history, and who should take charge of the TTC.
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The Lives of 233–235 Spadina
Once one among many handsome 19th-century mansions on Spadina, this house has managed to outlast its contemporaries by constantly adapting.
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LORINC: The public space embarrassment that is College Park
Five years after a major rehab, the open space at Yonge and College has already gone to seed
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 081, Talking Transit ’24
In This Episode: Is the TTC reliable? Will the Eglinton Crosstown ever open? And Doug Ford's literal track record.
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Ontario Place premieres at TIFF
Filmmaker Ali Weinstein captured the people using Ontario Place in a moment of limbo between the onset of the pandemic and the redevelopment
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LORINC: Booze in the corner store
Ontario's move to allow alcohol to be sold in convenience stores won't produce any of the ills we've been warned about
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Re-visiting the subway art of ‘Atmospheric Lens’
During a hot and wet summer, with renewed criticism of TTC station design, our critic considers the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station
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Exploring Toronto through its Indigenous heritage
First Story, available through the Driftscape app, is the perfect way to discover new parts of the city
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Ontario Place’s West Island trees on death watch
Ian Darragh looks at the legal and other challenges to the Ford government's plans, and whether they give any faint hope the trees can be saved from clearcutting.
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OP-ED: The lessons of the Dundas St. building collapse
Dominique Russell argues that the City of Toronto needs to consider expropriating neglected affordable housing properties
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Documenting the collapsed Dundas Street buildings
Photographer Peter MacCallum captured images of the four matching storefronts at 606-614 Dundas West in their prime, and after they had deteriorated.
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From drainage ditch to vibrant, pollution-absorbing habitat
Douglas Counter fought City Hall and won the right to help clean Marie Curtis Beach by transforming the ditch in front of his Etobicoke property into a rainwater infiltration garden
By Trent Weston
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered