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Affordable developments not stranger than fiction
During the recent municipal election, a number of candidates spoke passionately about creating more affordable housing. A certain over-exposed downtown...
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Public spaces melting?
Ok, so it’s not exactly waterfront news, but there’s an article in today’s Star about the effects of global warming on Toronto’s...
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Dancing in the streets
Tired, like Billy Idol, of just dancing with yourself? Or tireder still, like OK GO, of dancing on treadmills at the gym? Well break on out of that...
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What was on Spacing Votes
The election is over, and all our election junkies can start to concentrate on the Spacing Wire again. We hope that our election coverage helped you get a...
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The Kids are Alright
(Image of the Wyld-Darling building on Bay Street, after the 1904 fire — via Toronto Archives) John Barber’s Globe column today, A city in...
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Saturday’s links to news
The quest for more [Toronto Star]: With barely half the polls reporting, Sean Hill erupts with words nobody wants to hear, let alone believe. “We...
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TTC to introduce two-colour token to combat counterfeits
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. This coming Monday, the TTC will unveil a new token designed to combat the counterfeits that have flooded the system...
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Lecture on “The New Landscape”
Christopher Hume profiles local landscape architect Janet Rosenberg in the Star today. She says interesting things about the difficulty of creating...
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Making Toronto’s streets
Streets are at the heart of a city. They take up a quarter of all land in the city. They should be the places where people gather and experience urban...
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The fate of the Cherry Beach trees
Anyone interested in learning more about plans to build soccer fields on the contaminated, but forested, soils by Cherry Beach — and judging by the...
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Forget convenient Slurpees! I want convenient art!
Lest the promisingly whelming weekend art fairs left you over- or underwhelmed (or, uh, you just couldn’t make it) now might be the time to soothe...
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Crossing anywhere on St. George
The Star‘s “Fixer” had an interesting story recently about curb cuts along St. George St. in the University of Toronto campus. During...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered