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Board of Trade gives sign of things to come?
When some of Toronto’s most influential developers and the Board of Trade backed the watered down tax package that was adopted by City Council in...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
One Book: Natural Light
They did not have the benefit of Mr. Ennis’s skylight to effect the passage of light into the room, but the front south-facing window was almost as...
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Monday’s headlines
• Extreme cold alert, extreme warnings [ Toronto Star ] • Lobbyist list finally online [ Toronto Star ] • Lobbyist registry sheds a new...
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Streetcars and LRT: Toronto’s next steps
The Spadina Streetcar: not quite LRT Yesterday, I posted an article on Spacing Toronto briefly explaining the history and context for North...
By Sean Marshall -
One Book: Two Panel Discussions
As part of One Book, the Toronto Public Library is hosting two panel discussions about Toronto: • Lost City: Can we preserve Toronto’s past...
By Shawn Micallef -
Sunday’s headlines
• Developer’s cost claims raise fears of legal chill [ Toronto Star ] • Observatory protest goes sky-high [ Toronto Star ] • Beware...
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Streetcars and LRT: the North American context
Los Angeles Metro Gold Line, Pasadena, California. The light rail renaissance that has taken place across North America has taken a few interesting...
By Sean Marshall -
TEST: Which year was this photo taken?
A few weeks ago, I posted a Toronto Archives photo challenging Spacing Toronto readers to guess the year it was captured. With the city currently...
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Snow jobs
This image, captured by Spacing’s web developer Michael Pereira after one of our recent snowstorms, pretty much says all there is to say about the...
By Dylan Reid -
Saturday’s headlines
WASTE • ‘The fairest system we can come up with’ [ Globe and Mail ] • Recycling rebellion brewing downtown [ Globe and Mail ] &bull...
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One Book: The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
He’d been spending his days hunched over papers in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at U of T, hunting down information even he admitted was...
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Remnants of Niagara’s “Arc de Triomphe”
Toronto has its share of odd historic artifacts scattered about town. Some of the most quirky bits, perhaps, are a couple of big stone medallions, back to...
By Gary Miedema
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered