Spacing Toronto

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

Community

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Green Space

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Urban Design

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