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World Wide Wedneday: Los Angeles, Denver and Mumbai
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
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Could Toronto lease out the Gardiner and DVP?
There was an interesting article in the Star recently (with a misleading headline) about how Chicago’s chief financial officer arranged leases on...
By Dylan Reid -
Wednesday’s headlines
CITY HALL • City budget meeting turns into screaming match [ Toronto Star ] • Councillor confronts citizen who criticized city hall’s tax-and-spend...
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Toronto’s Market Buildings and First City Hall of 1831
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was written in 1985 by Stephen Otto for a catalog that was never published to accompany the exhibit “Meeting Places...
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Decorated librarian pays tribute to his female colleagues
I rarely blur the line between my role on the Toronto Public Library Board and my writing for Spacing but today is an exception. On February 25, I...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
SPACING RADIO: City budgets, ferry rides and Olympic legacies
Spacing Radio 017 is on the air. It’s budget-time in Toronto and while City Hall is busy at work approving the final numbers, host David Michael...
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STREET SCENE: Train In Snow
Paradoxically clean. Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Tuesday’s headlines
TTC • Politicians to stay on TTC board [ Toronto Sun ] • Audit TTC, board of trade urges [ Toronto Star • Board of trade chief urges audit of TTC ...
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LORINC: Parsing Caplan’s TTC essential service bill
From what I can glean, there are three competing explanations for what former Liberal health minister David Caplan was up to last week when he introduced...
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Brantford’s downtown destruction
Brantford city council recently voted to demolish three blocks of heritage buildings in the city’s downtown. Guest columnist Nigel Terpstra, of...
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Monday’s headlines
GREENBELT • Hume: Five years later, Greenbelt’s something to celebrate [ Toronto Star ] • Humber, Don rivers added to Greenbelt [ National Post ...
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Spacing Saturday
Every Saturday, we highlight recent posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. • [Re]Presenting...
By Katia Snukal
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered