Spacing Toronto

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

Community

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...

By Robin Chubb

Bikes

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

Headlines

Sunday’s headlines

• Toronto’s year of living large – and tall [ Toronto Star ] • Sybil Wa: Architect [ Toronto Star ] • Ontario group launches...

By Monika Warzecha

Bikes

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...

By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler

Community

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...

By Sean Marshall

Headlines

Saturday’s headlines

• Teardown Toronto [ Globe and Mail ] • Toronto streetcar named among world’s best [ Toronto Star ] • Go biodegradable in green bins...

By Monika Warzecha

Community

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...

By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler

Headlines

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

Headlines

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

Bikes

Winter cyclist profile – Deb, College of midwives CEO

Name / Occupation / Age Deborah Adams / Registrar & CEO, College of Midwives of Ontario / 39 years How often do you ride? Most days. I ride to work...

By Tammy Thorne

Headlines

Wednesday’s headlines

• TTC nets sponsor for New Year’s Eve revellers [ Toronto Star ] • Policeboard urged to release data [ Toronto Star ] • New hope at...

By Monika Warzecha