Spacing Toronto

Spacing 2007 calendar still available

Now that the holidays are over and you don’t have to buy presents for anyone, you should splurge on yourself: pick up Spacing‘s 2007 calendar...

By Matthew Blackett

Bikes

Best of 2006: cyclist-driver fight in Kensington

The impact blogs can have on a news story became rather apparent in late January of 2006. Adam Krawesky, a Spacing contributor and one of Toronto’s...

By Matthew Blackett

Architecture

Terminal Two Twilight

Holiday week required two trips two days in a row to Pearson’s Terminal Two via car to drop off and pick up various current and former Torontonians...

By Shawn Micallef

Communication

Best of 2006: intervention

The Best Intervention of 2006 goes to the bench installed, without permission of the City, outside of the Parkdale Library on Queen Street West. In...

By Matthew Blackett

Architecture

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...

By Spacing

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...

By Spacing

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