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An artist’s rendition: TTC makeover ideas
If you mixed these two together, what would Toronto get? Anyone who knows me well knows that my biggest pet peeves are bad public transit and bad design...
By Craig Cal -
Parliament when the ears hurt because it’s so cold
Sometime around 1:30 AM tonight while walking/running quickly up the super-cold and windy Parliament Street just north of Dundas, by the part of Regent...
By Shawn Micallef -
Does the Redpath have to go?
John Barber’s article in the Globe the other day compared the Redpath Sugar plant to the Island Airport as a major stumbling block on the road to...
By Ian Malczewski -
Dale Duncan at City Hall: Feb. 1, 2007
Spacing‘s managing editor Dale Duncan writes a weekly column for Eye Weekly focused on City Hall. Each week we’ll post her columns on the...
By Dale Duncan -
Spacing Photos back!
Spacing Photos, our daily photoblog of Toronto’s public spaces, has been on hiatus since the municipal election. But as of today, its alive again...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto’s public spaces in the news
TRANSIT • Can GO get going? [ Toronto Star ] • GO unveils strike plan [ Toronto Star ] • TTC, supervisors charged in noxious gas case ...
By Matthew Blackett -
Urban Field Speakers Series: Notions of public time
The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, in association with the Visible City Project, is hosting a series of talks on how art can transform the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Wednesday’s mid-afternoon link to articles
Word out of City Hall today is that Astral, Clear Channel, and CBS have submitted their applications for the street furniture program. More to come...
By Matthew Blackett -
I get so emotional baby, every time I think of Lat 51°4N Long114°4W
While I’ve been getting emotional at other places on the Wire lately, I find it’s nice to get a little more geographically diverse in emotion...
By Leah Sandals -
Magical skating moment
In medieval European chronicles, the authors would make a special note of years in which the local river froze over, which might happen once a decade...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto Diaspora
In this photo, taken last September, a proud former Torontonian spreads the royalty-free Gospel of Toronto Iconography in the tourist town of Bugibba...
By Shawn Micallef -
Why “Toronto: You belong here” belongs here
Well, dress me up in a three-piece suit and call me a Rotman School of Management professor! According to a Star editorial today by RSM marketing prof...
By Leah Sandals
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered