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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 077, Spring cleaning in Toronto
In this episode: Terrible trash cans and Russian hackers
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Are commercial “third places” a dying breed?
A recent renovation of his local Starbucks that discourages spending time there has Craig Meerkamper pondering the loss of spaces to hang out between home and workplace.
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Dangerous Development: ‘Boulder beaches’ are unsafe and bad for us and our environment
At a time when Ontario Place has been put off limits, the City's new approach to making beaches is not an improvement
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LORINC: It’s time to talk about the Committee of Adjustment
These tribunals attract the worst kind of NIMBYism and don't belong in a city that needs to fight a housing crisis on every front
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Youth Design Jam for Downsview
High school students came up with urban design ideas for a prize aimed at getting them excited about planning
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What is the cost of ransomware attack on Toronto Library?
With the City footing the bill for what happened at the Toronto Public Library, a heightened awareness of the importance of cyber-security kicks in
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The urban photography of Arthur Goss, Part 2: The housing series, 1936-1940
Toronto's first official photographer captured the state of housing at the end of the Great Depression
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. V
Q+A with Toronto's chief librarian, Vickery Bowles, about how the library is moving forward
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. IV
The library's digital infrastructure was out of commission for months. What did the City learn?
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Take the Yonge subway to the future! (expect some delays)
With the opening of the new, unfamiliar "subway" in Toronto today, March 30, 1954, Mayor Bert Xanadu offers Torontonians some tips on how to navigate this subterranean marvel.
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. III
City officials were sternly warned to beef up cyber-security two years before Toronto Library attack
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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. II
The ransomware attack on the Toronto Library raises tough questions that still lack complete answers
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered