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POLL: What is your opinion of these three concrete buildings?
I’ve been reading the book Concrete Toronto, published by Coach House Books and ERA Architects. It’s a wonderful collection of short essays...
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Canada, let her keep a memento
“I could fill up the lake with the things I didn’t say Had a good run anyway Had a good run anyway” — Final Fantasy, “The CN...
By Liz Clayton -
Convincing councillors to fund bike infrastructure
Tomorrow at City Hall, Toronto’s budget committee will meet to discuss and hear feedback on the proposed 2008 capital budget. For most residents...
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A monument for “The Campaign Against Terror�
There was a lot of press on memorials and remembrance over this November 11 weekend — among it a mini-tour of unusual war memorials I wrote for...
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1984 TTC Commercial
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqCTh9zyE60[/youtube] Makes me want to visit, but not for the “rare beef.” The lengths some song...
By Shawn Micallef -
Get ready for Spacing’s Fall 2007 issue!
The editors sent the upcoming issue of Spacing to the printer just the other day! That means the new issue will be arriving in the mailbox of subscribers...
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BrownTOpia: Leaf Blower Hockey hits Scadding Park
While I’m very happy about yesterday’s GreenTOpia launch and the upcoming Building Sustainability series, I’m saddened to see this Star...
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“Building Sustainability” lecture series
A new free lecture and discussion series on “Building Sustainability” is being inaugurated this month by the organization Architecture for...
By Dylan Reid -
The invisible presence of parking
Three of us working on The Impervious P-lot congregated in Montreal to interview Gina Laurel, an architect working on a Communications PhD about water...
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Saving the urban forest
As Spacing gets set to release a green issue our editors are paying a little more attention to articles in the media about local environment issues...
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GreenTOpia launch Sunday
GreenTOpia: towards a sustainable Toronto, the third installment of the uTOpia series from Coach House Books, launches with the usual fanfare of panel...
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Rethinking Redevelopment at Regent Park Film Fest
Though there’s urban development panels aplenty in Toronto, few of them have taken place in the neighbourhood that’s currently experiencing...
By Leah Sandals
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered