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Parks

The end of Boston’s Big Dig

BOSTON — The most widely publicized attempt to rejuvenate a city scarred by an elevated expressway concludes today: Boston’s Big Dig has...

By David Pal

Media

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...

By Shawn Micallef

Headlines

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...

By Monika Warzecha

Spacing

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