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Kingwell vs. Florida?
In an article in The Walrus earlier this year, Mark Kingwell referred to fellow urban thinker/public intellectual/University of Toronto professor/sometime...
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Tuesday’s headlines
LOCAL • City moved to calm sign war [ Toronto Star ] • New blood injected into Distillery District with $1 million gift [Globe & Mail ...
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Toronto Stories: The film
Billed as Four cameras — Four Stories — One City, Toronto Stories is an especially rare kind of film produce here in Hollywood North because...
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Spacing’s fifth anniversary party and new issue
(see larger version of the cover) WHEN: Wed. December 10th, 7pm-1am WHERE: The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West at Dovercourt HOW MUCH: $5 for...
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Montréal Monday: Walk on Sailor, Ash to ashes, Creatively Vandalised Election Signs – Provincial
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 discussions...
By Mike Bulko -
Monday’s headlines
• Councillors split on proposed salary freeze [ Globe & Mail ] • Coughing up from the coffers [ Globe & Mail ] • Vaughan council in...
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New Art of Suburbia — thoughts from Scarborough
ED: Tim Whalley, Executive Director of the Scarborough Arts Council, contributed the following reflection on the New Art of Suburbia panel that took place...
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Friday’s Headlines
• Shaken Liberals plan next moves [ Toronto Star ] • Parliament suspended after GG agrees to… [ National Post ] • City should have...
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The sidewalk canopies of New York
One detail I’ve always liked about the New York City streetscape are the canopies that lead from building entrances to the edge of the sidewalk...
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Architecture Fetish: By George!
Toronto is a Georgian city. It’s our first architectural style and the basis of our city’s grid plan. There may not be much of it around...
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New transit shelters eating into sidewalk space
New TTC shelter at Queen West and Peter In recent weeks, while walking on routes which have been familiar to me for years on Queen Street West and Hoskin...
By Dylan Reid -
Thursday’s headlines
CITY COUNCIL • Miller to forgo raise; freeze office budget [Globe & Mail] • City turning up the heat on landlords [Globe & Mail] &bull...
By Chloe Ellingson
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered