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Meet the 2017 Jane Jacobs Prize winners
The Jane Jacobs Prize is an annual award, presented by Spacing, that celebrates individuals who contribute to the fabric of Toronto life in unique ways...
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LORINC: Sidewalk Labs has hit a roadblock
The City of Toronto last week clearly signaled to Waterfront Toronto (WT) that the tripartite development agency drastically overstepped its mandate by...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Old City Hall Gargoyles
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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Computer love: Toronto’s first electronic dates
Bill McNeil and Judy Perry were among the first people ever fixed up by a computer. In 1957, three decades before the first dating websites and 55 years...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 018, The Battle of Portage & Main
In this special episode, we devote our entire time to an issue that’s plagued Winnipeg for nearly 40 years: pedestrians are not allowed to cross the...
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Meet 2017 Jane Jacobs Prize winners at YIMBY
Spacing is happy to present the 2017 winners of the Jane Jacobs Prize as part of the 10th annual YIMBY Festival. Come out to the ceremony and see which...
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LORINC: Board of Trade pitches myth of free transit
Among all the forms of magical thinking that infect the region’s political culture, none are as pernicious — or persistent — as the myth of free transit...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: CCM Bicycles
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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LORINC: St. Clair Reservoir Toronto’s other ‘palace of water’
Toronto Water’s ongoing efforts to complete a state-of-good-repair overhaul on the St. Clair Reservoir, under Sir Winston Churchill Park, could be...
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GREENBERG: How Sidewalk Labs could make a vital contribution to Toronto’s evolution
At a moment when over 80% of Canadians live in city regions, the challenges related to all aspects of achieving a sustainable future are piling up. The...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Of Toronto The Good
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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My Grandfather Worked Here: The Unilever soap factory in photos and memory
The closed-down Unilever soap factory near the bottom of the Don River has been there since 1890. For ten days in the fall of 2017 it became the sight of...
By Chris Penrose
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered