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Sleuthing a ghost sign on River Street
Ghost signs: The slowly fading hand-painted advertisements that cling to the sides of older buildings, redundantly promoting companies, products and...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 056, Rail Deck Park and best laid (official) plans
This episode is all about plans: big and small, successful and dashed. First, Toronto Star city hall reporter Jennifer Pagliaro takes us through the story...
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Chinatown: Uncovering the future in the past, and the present in the future
The new issue of Spacing includes an article by Paula Tran, “What will happen to Toronto’s Chinatown?” In conjunction with that...
By Linda Zhang -
LORINC: The cautionary tale of Rail Deck Park
If Toronto’s Rail Deck Park plan ended up dying in a dense thicket of legalistic land-use planning arguments, it would be fair to say that the idea...
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Examining the ambiguous keepers of the hotel shelter list
The hotel shelter program is a highlight of the City’s homelessness solution strategy, galvanized by the effects of the pandemic. In a December press...
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LORINC: New transit funding will help developers instead of low-income families
Nothing quite smells like an election coming ‘round the corner than large deposits of transit funding. The federal Liberals liberally strew many billions...
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Recording Hart Massey’s Factory and Concert Hall
In 1986, I photographed the historic, sprawling Massey Ferguson farm machinery plant in Toronto just as demolition work was getting underway. Staying one...
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LORINC: How over-crowding has made housing lethal during pandemic
There were so many truly awful details about the death, from COVID-19, of 13-year-old Emily Victoria Viegas — Brampton’s wall-to-wall hotspots, the lack...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 055, Post-Pandemic Transit Ridership
Before the pandemic, the Toronto Transit Commission was actively looking for ways to grow its ridership. Now, after taking a hit in numbers during the...
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EXCERPT: Indigenous Toronto, Stories That Carry This Place
This essay is excerpted with permission from Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place (Coach House Books, 2021). NOW THAT WE KNOW When I first...
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Toronto after the 1st Wave: How COVID-19 affected three key markets
This is co-authored by Youjing Li and Shauna Brail In the fall of 2020, a University of Toronto research team set out to track key metrics from the city...
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COVID-19 and TTC ridership: putting the pandemic in historical perspective
When the TTC Board met on 10 February 2021, understandably, most media and public attention was focussed on the fate of the Commission’s aging SRT line...
By Michael Doucet
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered