Spacing Toronto

Best of 2006: lists from around the continent

Did you know that for the first time in North America there are more poor residents of suburbs than central cities? Or that America’s older...

By Matthew Blackett

Communication

Best of 2006: graffiti

Graffiti has become the wallpaper of urban life as much of it tends to blend into the city landscape. But a creative person has been doing some fabulous...

By Matthew Blackett

Spacing

Spacing in the media today

Both Shawn Micallef (Spacing associate editor) and Matthew Blackett (Spacing publisher and creative director) were featured in the weekend papers...

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Green Space

Best of 2006: Tree Pit Liberation

All over Toronto in 2006 people and businesses have been removing the cement covers that strangle our street trees, turning that little patch of uncovered...

By Shawn Micallef

Housing

Toronto in the news today

Here are a list of articles that are worth reading today. • EDITORIAL: Miller faces tests on growth, budget [ Toronto Star ] • Miller mum on 25...

By Matthew Blackett

Neighbourhoods

Post Christmas Self-Gift Tip: College Street

Christmas is done so you probably have money from Grand Ma or Weird Uncle to go “buy a present for yourself” because “you are too hard...

By Shawn Micallef

Community

A tardy alt-weekly round up

This week, NOW’s Mike Smith writes about TTC development: Other side of the tracks. He focuses on the idea of selling TTC land to developers, as a...

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Community

Ye Old Merry Christmas

Spacing editor Anna Bowness has said, a few times, that Sesame Street taught us everything we needed to know about urbanism when we were 3. It’s...

By Shawn Micallef

Communication

Merry Christmess, from Zanta

Thanks to BlogTO for this tip — at Queen West and Gladstone (one block east of Dufferin), someone has either paid for a Zanta billboard or has...

By Matthew Blackett

Spacing

Lots of links for the weekend

We’re not sure how much we’ll be posting over the next few days, so here are a bunch of links to articles in local papers and a variety of...

By Matthew Blackett

Bikes

Last-minute gift tip: New Orleans Bicycles

Spacing contributor and Toronto photoblogging celeb Rannie Turingan will be filled with envy when he sees the book New Orleans Bicycles [ Mark Batty...

By Matthew Blackett

Features

Last-minute gift tip: Metropolitan World Atlas

Some of you may be sitting at your desk today trying to kill time for the rest of the day so you can get out from behind your desk and finish up your...

By Matthew Blackett