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Toronto Ruins
(Photo courtesy of Bob Krawczyk) The Toronto Star reported two days ago that the James Chalmers Building located at 6 Howard Street has collapsed. This...
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Sidewalk carving removed
A reliable source (a Broken Pencil magazine editor) has told Spacing that the sidewalk carvings found at King and Simcoe, made by a man who asked for...
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Province Rolls Out Greater Toronto Transit Authority
CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR TTC and Mississauga buses share space at Islington station. Crossposted to Transit Toronto. The Toronto Star is reporting that...
By James Bow -
Cinematic City
Unconfirmed rumours are circulating that the plug has been pulled on Atom Egoyan’s Camera Bar-slash-repertory cinema on Queen Street just east of...
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SPACING: Comments on the Spacing Wire
Some of you may have noticed that we are now allowing comments on the Spacing Wire. We will turn on the comments function for posts that we feel need to...
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The TTC and Google
As we posted back on December 8th, 2005, the TTC is hoping to get our system into the Google Transit feature. From the Star: Google has asked the TTC for...
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Moscoe Responds to Anagram Map Challenge
Earlier this week, Sean Lerner, who challenged the TTC’s legal department by reprinting the original version of RobotJohnny’s Anagram Map...
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Leading us to water
This morning the Globe and Mail is reporting that the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp has short listed a competition to make the approach to the...
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Meter Pops
Meter Pops by Mark Jenkins, found in downtown Washington DC. It would be nice to know what is going through this gentleman’s head as he approaches...
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Toronto’s community gardens
Earlier today I posted about community gardens in Los Angeles. Coincidentally, Eye Weekly has a feature on Toronto’s community gardens. Amid budget...
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Postering & Gentrification
NOW has two stories worth reading this week: one is on postering and the pros and cons of the newly proposed by-law. Spacing has the exact same concerns...
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Crazy cycle lanes
BBC news asked readers for photos of bizarre bike lanes and got some good ones.
By Chris Hardwicke
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered