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The gh3 team wins competition for June Callwood Park design
The gh3 design firm, based here in Toronto, has been chosen as the winner of the international design competition for June Callwood Park. Spacing’s...
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Thursday’s headlines
COUNCILLOR PAY DEBATE • City councillors refuse to debate wage freeze [ National Post ] • City council defers pay raise debate [ Toronto Star ...
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Harper ignores needs of Toronto’s most vulnerable
When word started leaking out last night through Mayor David Miller via Twitter that Transit City wasn’t funded in the budget brought down by the...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Wednesday’s headlines
INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING • Miller concerned red-tape will stall project funding [ National Post ] • Politicians, business leaders fear cash...
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Street signs of the times
Toronto’s new street signs are beginning to appear at intersections across the city. About five years ago the City of Toronto began the process of...
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Events Guide: Rob Ford says sorry, brown cities, last billboard consultation
WHAT: Rob Ford apology fundraising party WHEN: Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 8:00pm WHERE: Revival 783 College Street West @ Shaw HOW MUCH: $10 suggestion...
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Tuesday’s headlines
INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING • Tories to pump $7-billion into public works [ Globe & Mail ] • What The #!%*? [ National Post ] • Ontario may...
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Tips for winter cycling
Toronto is once again having a snowy winter, and the City’s Coldest Day of the Year Ride for cyclists is coming up this Friday (January 30). With...
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Montreal Monday: Griffintown phase two, transit use up, snow battle royale on Mount Royal
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and...
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Building Storeys: Little House in the Valley
Milne House (2008), photographed by Olena Sullivan ED: Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema will be making a series of posts on structures around the...
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Monday’s headlines
• TTC loads up on consultants [ National Post ] • Councillors split on proposed pay freeze [ Globe & Mail ] • York strike may last...
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Architecture Fetish: Log(ically) Toronto
Though I maintain Toronto’s first architectural style was The Georgian, I want to give a more humble form of early architecture its time in the...
By Thomas Wicks
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered