Spacing Toronto

Lost without laneways

NEW YORK – In my unending quest to find unpopulated laneways to stroll through, I’ve made an interesting discovery. There are none. Thanks to...

By Joseph Clement

Headlines

Thursday’s headlines

• Water pipe upgrade plan rejected [ Toronto Star ] • City hall travel ban doesn’t apply to politicians [ Toronto Star ] • Giorgio...

By Monika Warzecha

Urban Design

Chicago’s Festival of Maps

CHICAGO — Not much sounds more appealing than a Festival of Maps, and Chicago delivered that holiday gift (and continues to deliver it) in its...

By Liz Clayton

Culture

First Canadian Place vs. Empire State Building

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Iy1H_4adc[/youtube] This time lapse of First Canadian Place by izod shot during it signage makeover (the old...

By Shawn Micallef

Community

Urgent: Urban philanthropist needed for Community History Project (redux)

ED: This entry was posted last Friday — we’ve been informed that the Community History Project is still looking for space this week, though...

By Shawn Micallef

Transit

Does transit card design matter?

There are so many issues on the TTC’s “hierarchy of problems” that questioning the metropass’s design could seem frivolous or even...

By Shawn Micallef

Headlines

Wednesdays’s headlines

• Details of city’s plan lost in fog [ Toronto Star ] • Why Toronto trails China on bag ban [ Toronto Star ] • Recreation fee hike...

By Monika Warzecha

Community

Mihevc talks recreation

Councillor Joe Mihevc has served his midtown Ward 21 for 17 years. The son of blue collar Slovenian immigrants, Councillor Mihevc began his political...

By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler

Green Space

Tree Tuesday: The Healthy House

Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...

By Todd Irvine

Community

Paying to play

Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. Today’s top story: the city has a plan to raise user fees for recreation programs. The intent of the plan is to invest...

By Dale Duncan

Headlines

Tuesday’s headlines

• City plans big fee hikes [ Toronto Star ] • Hefty rise in recreation fees proposed [ Globe and Mail ] • A decade later, some still...

By Monika Warzecha

Spacing

Spacing does CBC Radio One this afternoon

For those with access to a radio this afternoon: Spacing associate editors Shawn Micallef and Dylan Reid will be on Here and Now with Matt Galloway...

By Spacing