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Snow Days
Yesterday, the sidewalk along Dundas at the south end of Regent Park was covered in snow, four days after the snowfall. The street was dry as a bone, as...
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Passing by Lower Bay
For the next six weekends, starting next Saturday, riders on the Bloor-Danforth line will have to transfer trains at Museum station because Bay station is...
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A northern flight up Bathurst Street
Spacing’s associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote the lead City article in this week’s Eye Weekly about the life and times of Bathurst Street...
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A non-crosseyed vision for 2011?
Today, Artscape launched a new campaign called Vision 2011: Thinking Big About Culture-led Regeneration aka A Roadmap for Toronto’s Future. Now, we...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: Feb. 15, 2007
Everyone’s bored of the board If there’s one thing city council can agree on these days, it’s that the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB...
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Turn your attention to Spacing Photos, please
Spacing Photos, our daily photoblog of Toronto’s public spaces, has been up and running again for the last two weeks (we took a little hiatus after...
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Goodbye Toro
As magazines go, Spacing doesn’t (or didn’t) have much in common with Toro Magazine. We generally covered different things, though one could...
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[murmur] Winter News
(We sent out the following [murmur] newsletter today. If you’d like to sign up for it directly, you can do so here, just scroll down. Please check...
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Nathan Phillips Square design competition display
The designs of the four finalists in the competition to re-design Nathan Phillips Square will be presented to the public next week. Tuesday, February 20...
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Boost for pedestrians in 2007 capital budget
I just came back from the capital budget open house at City Hall today, and there is good news for pedestrians in the City of Toronto’s 2007 capital...
By Dylan Reid -
Illegal Signs blog launches!
Here at Spacing, we’ve been using the term “ad creep” for years to help illustrate the impact of intrusive outdoor advertising in...
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Toronto, before and after
I love before and after photos. It shows how much things change and how much they stay the same. The above images are looking west on Queen St. West from...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered