Spacing Toronto

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

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

Bikes

Regent Park Take II — The Bike Man Episodes

It’s a beautiful cold December day, so watch these three summerish short films from Regent Park TV following the adventures of Bike Man and his...

By Shawn Micallef

Events

Bright and Fuzzy Lights in the Big City

When my sister and I were kids we would ride around Windsor in the back seats of our parents’ cars and rate Christmas displays as we passed them. If...

By Shawn Micallef

Community

Perverse Psychogeography?

“Psychogeography” seems to be generally considered a relatively benign observational activity — a random drifting through the city to...

By Dylan Reid

Architecture

Better Know a Building

To add to the long and growing list of individuals working on Toronto projects close to their hearts that benefit the rest of us, here is TOBuilt. Local...

By Shawn Micallef