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LORINC: The potential locked up in Pecaut Square
Earlier this year, Mayor Rob Ford re-dedicated the interstitial space next to Metro Hall as David Pecaut Square — a classy tribute to a classy guy, whose...
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Headspace: John Campbell discusses Toronto’s waterfront
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
Spacing Road Show starts this week!
This week marks the start of the Spacing Road Show! Spacing’s publisher Matthew Blackett is setting out on a 10,000km journey across Canada in June...
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Monday’s headlines
ARCHITECTURE & DEVELOPMENT • Squeezed in, but abounding in open space [Globe & Mail] • Waterfront revival: Needless spat over the Quay [The Star...
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Spacing Saturday: Capital Bixi, Turkish Transit and the Cycling Etiquite Debate
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Spacing Launched its first...
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A suggested work-around for the Queen’s Quay conundrum
This week, we heard that the long-standing plans for converting the southern part of Queen’s Quay Boulevard into attractive, landscaped walking and...
By Dylan Reid -
Friday’s headlines
TCHC • Ford: Sell 928 TCHC homes [The Star] • Ford plans to sell social housing stock to close budget deficit [Globe & Mail] • Ootes wants city to...
By Katia Snukal -
Regent Park trees no match for feller buncher
A huge machine tears out a tree from Spacing Magazine on Vimeo. There’s a big new machine in town, and it’s a mean one. As Catherine Porter of the Star...
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STREET SCENE: Summer Cycles
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
The top 25 walking intersections in Toronto
We finally have a map of where and how much we walk in Toronto. As part of Global’s story this week on the most dangerous intersections for...
By Dylan Reid -
Another open letter from one Toronto cyclist to another: the law’s the real problem.
Editor’s Note: Last week we posted an open letter by Emma Woolley about bad cyclist behavior in Toronto. The post generated lots of discussion here...
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Thursday’s headlines
TTC • Time for new thinking at TTC [The Sun] • TTC balks at paying full fare for Presto [The Sun] • TTC looking at service cuts, fare hike in budget...
By Katia Snukal
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered