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Power plant plans finalized for port lands
The CBC is reporting that Mayor David Miller and residents near the port lands have lost their battle to stop the construction of a new power plant in the...
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Wanted: a transit visionary for GTA
cross-posted from Spacing Votes by Zach Slootsky Why can’t Toronto find someone with the guts to stand up for transit? This is the question that...
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The lost city of Chernobyl
I stumbled across a site with a batch of images from Chernobyl. Besides being abandoned, the city has also become a haven for graffiti artists. Also worth...
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Negotiating neighbourhoods
John Lorinc writes about Section 37 in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. The term refers to part of the Planning Act that allows the city and developers...
By Dale Duncan -
Burning for Sweden
Now that a deadline has been set to stop trucking Toronto’s garbage to Michigan, the problem of what to do with the city’s trash is on the...
By Dale Duncan -
Wade into Don River Park discussion
The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation has invited the public to participate in a forum for the 7.3 hectare Don River Park. The forum takes...
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Hume’s Stockholm Syndrome II
Christopher Hume is on a Stockholm kick. Today in the Toronto Star he writes about Hammarby Sjostad, a waterfront community built over the last decade on...
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SPACING: John Lorinc joins our election coverage
Spacing is very excited to announce that John Lorinc, noted urban affairs journalist and author of the The New City, has joined the Spacing Votes election...
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Low floor buses a bust
Both Howard Moscoe and Chief General Manager Gary Webster say the new low-floor buses have been a failure due to their poor seating in the rear of the...
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condo BOOM! opens next week
From September 21 to 30, The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West) will be hosting condo BOOM!, an exhibit that aims to explore “the marketing...
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Take the Tooker group ride Saturday
To help reduce smog in the city and climate change, there are people busily working away at alternative transport options, which include cycling. This...
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Hume has Stockholm Syndrome, too
Even along the major roadways of Stockholm you find the different types of traffic are separate: bus lanes, car/truck lanes, and a fenced off cycling...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered