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Pugly Awards
For the second time, The Pugly Awards let you give the thumbs up, or thumbs down, to Toronto buildings completed in the last year. The Pugly Awards were...
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Weekend round-up
A list of articles from the weekend newspapers: Tall buildings and shadows: Spacing associate editor Dylan Reid posted on the Spacing Wire back in...
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Anne Murray: Menace II Toronto
Last night the Toronto Psychogeography Society started one of our weekly drift’s at the corner of University and King after an Images-Geothe film...
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Everything you need to read about Jane Jacobs
Since Tuesday morning, the passing of Jane Jacobs has been a source of a lot of blog posts and newspaper tributes. Technorati, the web portal that...
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Port Lands tour, Port Lands Energy Centre protest
(crossposted on the Eye Blog) This Saturday, the The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation (TWRC) is holding public tours of the Port Lands...
By Dale Duncan -
Toronto’s Festival of Architecture and Design
The City of Toronto’s Festival of Architecture and Design is now underway and will run until the end of May. Spacing has two events during the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Where am I?
Today a glossy brochure called “The School Paper — the official Schoolhouse Community Newletter”, complete with fancy red apple on the...
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City Idol opens on Friday!
Almost three million people live in Toronto. All important decisions are made by forty five people. They’re called City Councillors. City Idol is...
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Cyclist memorials
(crossposted on the Eye Weekly blog.) Tomorrow (Thursday, April 27), memorials will be held for the two cyclists killed April 20th. The morning memorial...
By Dale Duncan -
Feds Open Funding Floodgates for Transit
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. A much higher than expected surplus (as high as $13 billion, by some estimates) has allowed the Conservative government of...
By James Bow -
Jane Jacobs 1916-2006
Jane Jacobs passed away overnight. She was 8 days away from turning 90 years old. Read the Globe and Mail article, the Toronto Star piece, and CBC.ca. CBC...
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Will the GTTA really help?
From the Star today: “Will the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority soar like an eagle, or will it be a turkey? That question was posed by Glen...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered