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Chainless bike
I’ve had a bad two weeks with my bike — three flat tires. I have surmised that something is caught inside my tire which is causing the...
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Munro to Miller: Commit the City to New Streetcars Now
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. Last week, the Toronto Budget Advisory Committee voted down a proposal to purchase new streetcars rather than rebuild 96...
By James Bow -
Port Authority sues CommunityAIR
According to the CBC, the Toronto Port Authority has filed a $3-million lawsuit against CommunityAIR, (the group that helped stop the bridge to the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Vancouver takes on the World
As a tribute to the UN Habitat World Urban Forum taking place in Vancouver this week, Vancouver weekly The Georgia Straight dedicated many of its pages to...
By Laura Hatcher -
Excuse me, but we’re number 3!
While Toronto may lag behind other cities it our quest to be a “world-class city” (probably now the most over-hyped and meaningless word in...
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New Toronto recycle calendar goes back in time
Spacing Wire reader Derek Wuenschirs sent us an email today that was a good laugh — the City has released the new recycling calendar for 2006 and...
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Sprawl from Space
Two University of Toronto profs and some others have studied the spread of urban sprawl in the late 20th century by creating composite satellite maps of...
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SPACING: Melbourne vs. Toronto: LRT showdown
Each Monday, Spacing.ca is posting articles to the Spacing Archives. This week’s piece is a comparison of Toronto and Melbourne, Australia’s...
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Distillery is anti-franchise, the airport LINK, and small town efficiency
All articles are from today’s Toronto Star. Distillery avoids sameness: from Chistopher Hume today…. For most visitors, the Distillery...
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Galloway
Today we’ve been hopping around Scarborough. First, at 7:30AM we were at a Pow Wow at Galloway Park, in the Kingston Galloway neighbourhood...
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Bike Riding at Jane and Finch
The American screenwriter Marc Norman once wrote an essay called Bike Riding in Los Angeles and how weird that is. I suspect it’s not unlike bike...
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There’s more to World Cup than soccer
It was nice to read a sports column today in the Star that wasn’t exactly about sports. Cathal Kelly, the Star’s man at the World Cup in...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered