Spacing Toronto

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...

By Dylan Reid

Spacing

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Green Space

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Neighbourhoods

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...

By Shawn Micallef

Neighbourhoods

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...

By Shawn Micallef

Community

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

Neighbourhoods

Cityspace

For the first time in human history more people live in the world’s cities than in the country. CBC radio has created a website dedicated to cities�...

By Chris Hardwicke

Culture

Set a new BENCHmark

If you picked up a copy of Spacing‘s Winter 2006 issue (“The New Beautiful City”) you may have seen an article by Anna Bowness on...

By Matthew Blackett

Transit

MTA vs. TTC

Torontonian Ivor Tossell was recently in New York City and took this picture of an MTA window display on 5th Avenue. Like, the main big money part of 5th...

By Shawn Micallef

Bikes

Drinking & cycling, new subways & TTC routes, street racing, police animals

• A teen was caught drinking and cycling and fell into an Etobicoke ravine. • There’s more controversy surrounding those new subway cars...

By Matthew Blackett

Features

The Adidas bridge at the World Cup

Just like the Olympics, the World Cup is an outdoor ad agency’s wet dream. Adidas placed this massive billboard over a bridge construction site on...

By Matthew Blackett

Neighbourhoods

Albion Skyline

We’ve watched the day pass by from the parking lot of the Albion Centre. A group of about 100 birds, mostly seagulls, have been pecking at the...

By Shawn Micallef