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Sao Paulo mayor moves to ban billboards
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes — by David Scrivener While doing my evening news round-up I came across an interesting article on the BBC’s...
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Toronto’s garbage woes answered?
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes I sometimes watch City Council meetings on Rogers. Today I turned it on and found councillors debating whether to buy a...
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In a Significant City
Local troublemaker and sometimes Spacing contributor Darren O’Donnell is doing a mobile bike thing this Friday and you are invited to join in: Using...
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Garbage Can Fetish: Colonial Roundup
Since the European capitals offer little in the way of culture, architecture and tourist attraction, there has been lots of time to look at some of the...
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Dufferin Grove Park is building a place to pee
Everyone seems to like Dufferin Grove Park, and it’s not hard to understand why. They’ve got outdoor bread ovens, a community garden, snack...
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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...
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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...
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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...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered