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Playground Sponsorship: Car Dealerships & Divas
While home for the holidays last week, just as Capital One announced it was going to donate $85,000 to cover tonight’s free TTC rides, I discovered...
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Monday’s headlines
• Tolls, taxes to rise in new year [ Toronto Star ] • City softens to the sharp edges [ Toronto Star ] • A year in politics through word of...
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Montréal Monday — postwar development, the Steinbergs, and lost neighbourhoods
Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and...
By Todd Harrison -
Mapping our urbanism – language
The Star included a map of “Greater Toronto’s language quilt” in their Ideas section today compiled based on recently released 2006...
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Winter cyclist profile – Keegan the PhD candidate
Name / Occupation / Age Keegan Barker / PhD Student / 31 What do you use your bike for? Transportation, fun, exercise, freedom. How often do you ride? Now...
By Tammy Thorne -
Sunday’s headlines
• Toronto’s year of living large – and tall [ Toronto Star ] • Sybil Wa: Architect [ Toronto Star ] • Ontario group launches...
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Picturing DC
WASHINGTON DC — At the risk of turning this blog into Spacing DC, I’m going to share a few more public space-related photographs from my...
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Reflections on Baltimore
Following up (and inspired by) on Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler’s post on walking in Washington, I happened to be in Charm City for a few days...
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Saturday’s headlines
• Teardown Toronto [ Globe and Mail ] • Toronto streetcar named among world’s best [ Toronto Star ] • Go biodegradable in green bins...
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Walking Washington’s 14th Street
WASHINGTON, DC — I flew down to the Washington, DC area earlier this week to celebrate Christmas with my Jewish family. Staying in the suburb of...
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Friday’s headlines
• Pitching plans for waste disposal [ Toronto Star ] • Extent of need shocks volunteers [ Toronto Star ] • A shorter winter means friskier...
By Monika Warzecha -
Thursday’s headlines
• Council backs tax breaks for businesses [ Globe and Mail ] • Can the mayor get his groove back in 2008? [ Globe and Mail ] • Inside the...
By Monika Warzecha
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered