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Heritage Toronto walks Saturday and Sunday
As part of this month’s Festival of Architecture & Design, Heritage Toronto is leading numerous different walks throughout the city. Each walk...
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SPACING presents: Photogrammetry
Spacing is happy to have hooked up with the Harbourfront Centre and Digifest to present a photo installation called Photogrammentry down by the...
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The Natural City
The University of Toronto’s Centre for Environment is holding a conference called The Natural City May 31 – June 2, with Stephen Lewis as the...
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Backstreets of Toronto Tours
The great thing about the internet-o-sphere is it allows for stuff like the “Backstreets of Toronto Tours” that Jamie posts over on JB’s...
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China to Build Eco-City
In our “History of our Future” issue of Spacing, we ran several articles about ideal, sustainable city ideas, including an...
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This is horse shit!
In late February, when the much beloved police horse Brigadier was killed by a hit-and-run driver, I posted a bit of rant about my feelings towards cops...
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Who You Gonna Call? Part 2
The City of Toronto website is full of useful but hard-to-find information. As a follow-up to the sidewalk-obstacle-busting phone numbers I provided in an...
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Sad day for Toronto
Another bit of Toronto Modern has come down, quickly, before the required permits could be issued to save it. The Inn on the Park rose above Eglinton and...
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SPACING FICTION: “23 Bay, 23 Bay, 23 Bay…” by Jim Munroe
Spacing has a number of articles from our public transit issue that we saved to publish exclusively on Spacing.ca. Last week we posted Robin Rix’s...
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Greening our cities
Fred Kent, director of Project for Public Spaces out of New York, has a great column on how Placemaking can reinvigorate the environmental movement. The...
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Weekend round-up of links
Murray Whyte of the Star write about orphan spaces: “They are the unloved, invisible and, chances are, right outside your door — dozens of...
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The suburban urban forest
In Sunday’s Toronto Star, Kenneth Kidd has a great piece about the urban forest in suburbia: …The houses duly go up, some of that topsoil gets...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered