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Tuesday’s Headlines
Getting Around Ford wants fewer managers, praises Stintz’s plan to contract out TTC cleaning [Globe & Mail] What type of GO rider are you...
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Urban Planet: Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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Cycling day trips: Uxbridge to Peterborough
September and October can be the best months for bike day trips – the days get cooler and leaves will soon change colour. Within the city, trails such as...
By Sean Marshall -
Instaflaneur: double decker dogs and other indoor canine tales
This is obviously not Toronto but rather London, where I spent last weekend wandering around, often with this miniature dachshund in tow, as here in the...
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STREET SCENE: Junk
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: An App to Track Investments in the Delaware Valley
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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LORINC: Cue the lawyers of #FordCourt
Mayor Rob Ford left the court by mid-day yesterday, but the ghosts of his two predecessors – Mel Lastman and David Miller – made their presence felt as...
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NO MEAN CITY: York University Learning Commons, by Levitt Goodman Architects
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Welcome to September. To kick off this academic year I want to take a second...
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Friday’s headlines
FORD • Ford’s conflict of interest: Honest error or ‘wilful blindness’? [Toronto Star] • One Toronto plus three Paul Magders equals a whole lot of...
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Headspace: Boris Issaev and Alex Berlyand of Parkbus
Boris Issaev and Alex Berlyand run Parkbus, an express bus service that connects downtown Toronto to several different Ontario Parks. The only service of...
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Introducing ByoLogyc CEO Chet Getram
Editor’s Note: To coincide with our Disaster issue, Spacing Toronto has teamed up with the transmedia, apocalyptic sci-fi project ZED.TO. Playing...
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Event: Saturday Green Festival on Central YMCA’s green roof
If you’ve not been to the Metro Central YMCA this weekend is a good time to see this city-in-one-building for yourself, and their great green roof...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered