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Pressure from West-end Waterfront residents working on Watson
In April, the Spacing Wire reported on a plan to turn some waterfront parkland near the newly renovated Palais Royale into a parking lot. The Parkdale...
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Spacing wins National Magazine Award
Spacing is excited to share some good news: on Friday evening, the magazine captured a gold medal in Best Editorial Package at the 2005 Canadian National...
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Green the ‘burbs
Hume in the Star today (click here for full article): So far, builders, especially suburban builders, have blithely ignored the consequence of what they...
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Inner City Outtripping
Spacing Editor Dale Duncan has written in Eye about a program in Toronto that takes inner-city youth on camping trips within the city itself, using areas...
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Pigeon Condo Talks
This is last minute, for today’s talk, but we’ll pretend everybody is reading this on a Blackberry or Palm Treo while moving around the city...
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Pedestrian Picnics
Ordinarily, you’d think one of the last places to have a picnic would be a gas station. Not so for the organizers of Streets are for Picnics! On...
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King-Spadina Area Plan Review
Last night, I attended a very interesting presentation/workshop about a review of the city’s “secondary plan” (the detailed urban...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto beaches open today
From the Toronto Star: Toronto’s city beaches officially opened for business yesterday with some city councillors frolicking in the 16C waters off...
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Native Tree Walk at Brickworks
June 11th 2-4PM Join arborist, Todd Irvine, for a guided tour of the native trees within the stunning quarry and adjacent ravine of the Don Valley Brick...
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Howard to quit? Ducharme says cars rule road
This TTC fiasco story won’t end soon, it looks like — Moscoe may step down from the the TTC Chair position. From Jeff Gray in the Globe and...
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We missed Dump the Pump Day
They take their cars and gas prices seriously south of the border, but transit systems across the US took part in a national Dump The Pump Day yesterday...
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The Billboard Battalion vs. Dundas Square
Nearly every community council meeting taking place at City Hall these days attracts someone from the Billboard Battalion, a sub-group of the Toronto...
By Dale Duncan
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered