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Time lapse Toronto
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0KohSucx_9o[/youtube] video by Reboot Your Computer I have a weak spot for time lapse videos. It may have to do with...
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Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
By Shawn Micallef -
Outside perspective: Toronto grows tall
Back in October we published James Rojas’s mini-essay “Toronto’s Messy Urbanism from the perspective of an Angeleno,” his...
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Trying a new streetscape on Cherry Street
There’s an interesting streetscape experiment in the works for Cherry St. between King and Lakeshore, part of the new West Donlands development...
By Dylan Reid -
Bali: Canada, Climate Change, Harper and You
With the release of the Spacing “Green” issue, we have faith that many solutions to the widely-acknowledged-climate-crisis will come at the...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
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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...
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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...
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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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered