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Wartime Housing
Editor’s Note: This post is the second of an ongoing column exploring various architectural styles in and around Toronto. Spacing writer and...
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Rating the walkability of your neighbourhood
In the fall, I stumbled across an interesting web site called Walk Score dedicated to rating the walkability of neighbourhoods. Originally, it was only...
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Phantom Shanghai
Click over to CBC.ca – Arts where photographer Greg Girard narrates a neat slide show of pictures from his book Phantom Shanghai. The book looks at...
By Shawn Micallef -
Tree Tuesday: New townhomes
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...
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The Death and Life of Great Queen Street
Hot on the heels of the Fix the Queen Streetcar Forum, where the corpse of the once great 501 line was kicked around and administered the defibrillator...
By Shawn Micallef -
TTC subway map in Chinese
Recently, Statistics Canada released a report that analysed a number of trends across the country, and one of the findings showed Toronto to be a growing...
By Matthew Blackett -
Montréal Monday — winter fun, secret laneways, and mysterious bus transfers
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 -
The Agenda: this week at City Hall
Toronto City Council has a heavy agenda [PDF] to get through at its meeting scheduled to run on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are highlights of some of the...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Series on commuting continues in Toronto Star
This week The Star is featuring a series on commuting. Yesterday’s was particularly interesting, looking at what was alternately termed...
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Folding bike rally Tuesday
You’ve seen them whizzing around town. Adults on bikes with little wheels. What are they riding? How can they go so fast? It looks so easy. Maybe I...
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Growth of density in Toronto since 1971
[flv]http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/popdwell/maps/animations/CMAs/Toronto.swf[/flv] While I was catching up on Spacing Montreal posts...
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Biking in Toronto poster contest
The City has issued a call for submissions for the Biking in Toronto Poster Contest. This coming spring, 3,000 full colour posters will be printed and...
By Tammy Thorne
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered