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Thursday’s headlines
TTC • TTC head Stintz’s OneCity transit plan struggles for support [Toronto Star] • TTC lawsuit: jury dismisses $1.6 million claim [Toronto Star] • TTC...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Slime mold maps out Tokyo’s rail system
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. In one of the weirdest Weird...
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Spacing releases War of 1812 fridge magnets
Spacing has long been a supporter of Fort York, Toronto’s most historic site. It is on those grounds near Bathurst and Front Streets that our city...
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NASA shows off city lights at night
The lights that make our skies glow at night are a symbol of how our civilization has grown, but ti wasn’t until the last two decades where detailed...
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Wednesday’s headlines
TRANSIT • Tanner Zurkoski is living in a car for a month to show how bad Toronto commuters have it [Toronto Star] • DiManno: Subway-hugger Ford needs to...
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A sign of things to come if the Jarvis Bike lane is removed
Jarvis Street is undergoing some construction right now and this innocent sign doesn’t have any idea of the civic strife it’s inadvertently...
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Event guide — Parler Fort at Fort York — Let’s talk about the War of 1812 on Wed. July 4th @7:30pm
Editor’s Note: Our friends at Fort York are hosting another Parler Fort event tomorrow discussing a new book and exhibit exploring the War of 1812...
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Urban Planet: Victoria’s Street Pianos
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...
By Hilary Best -
LORINC: The two solitudes of the One City transit plan
For my next party trick, I’m going to solve the stand-off between the Stintz/DeBaeremaeker One City faction and the Ontario Liberals in three easy...
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STREET SCENE: Art Spin Gathering
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Exploring Osgoode Hall
Editor’s note: Spacing was invited by the Law Society of Upper Canada to tour Osgoode Hall and its new exhibit, “Fact or Fiction: Deciphering...
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Cities for People: In the Galleria Mall’s shadow, new urban amenities for the Wallace-Emerson neighbourhood
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD U’s Cities for People workshop. This post & design intervention is by Julie Forand, Dakota...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered