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NOCD: How Toronto is Making Space for Culture
Editor’s note: This is the fourth post in a series that investigates the emerging concept of the Naturally Occurring Cultural District (NOCD). Posts...
By Claire Nelischer -
Thursday’s headlines
ONECITY TRANSIT PLAN • How TTC chair Karen Stintz and her allies made the OneCity transit plan [Toronto Star] • Mayor Rob Ford won’t support OneCity...
By Mike Bulko -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: US school suspends cycling students
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. At my high school (and most others...
By Mike Bulko -
Urban Planet: Creative Class, Revisited
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 -
STREET SCENE: Going to a Barbeque
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
Tuesday’s headlines
GARDINER • Gardiner Expressway concrete falls on Mercedes at Yonge St. and Lake Shore Blvd. [Toronto Star] • ‘It sounded like a gunshot’: Driver shaken...
By Amber Daugherty -
Urban Planet: Transient Camps
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 -
Cities for People: Simcoe Street Revival
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People workshop. This post was researched and written by Laura Headley, Margarita...
By Shawn Micallef -
LORINC: Welcome to the huburbs of Greater Toronto
An elegant little planning book is doing the rounds these days – an intriguing 123-page volume entitled “Huburbs: Transit and Urbanism in the...
By John Lorinc -
Monday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Ford brothers muse on radio about Canada Day parade [Toronto Star] • Ford OK with on-street parking hike [The Sun] • Kristyn Wong-Tam has big...
By Amber Daugherty -
Sunday on the Island 1: Slippery Names, Soft Sands.
This is the first of some posts for Spacing Toronto exploring the Toronto Islands as the potent place that they are to our city. New posts will go up on...
By Erica Yudelman -
War of 1812: The Battle of Crysler’s Farm
To help mark the War of 1812’s bicentennial year, staff from the Archives of Ontario will be posting a series of articles highlighting their related...
By Archives of Ontario
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered