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Lost Space on Church
Bert Archer has a new smart blog. He recently posted about the closing of the venerable Second Cup at Church and Wellesley – until recently home to...
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Generating An Alternative Night-Time Mobility
Saturday, July 16th @ 10:00PM Meeting points @ Mercer Union (37 Lisgar Street) and Front Street, in front of Union Station Explore Toronto’s public...
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Get to know the city this weekend
This weekend there are a number of excellent public space related events that are worth checking out. 1. Sorauren Park Summer Festival. Saturday. Spacing...
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Bikes and feet
Christopher Hume had an outpouring of response to his recent column on the state of walking in Toronto. He mainly focused his derision on drivers, but...
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Extreme Subway Makeovers
Could drab, functional Museum station one day feel like an extension of the Royal Ontario Museum, with Greek columns in the place of its current...
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Viva York Region
Close to home: Viva – York Region’s new rapid transit system – is making the TTC look silly. Their busstops have ticket vending...
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Great idea, wrong funding model
Could this be a Toronto bus stop? (image is from London’s transit system) Howard Moscoe, TTC Chair, has put forth a great idea — install a...
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Water Wars: From Durban to Toronto
The Toronto Environmental Alliance, in collaboration with Gallery 1313, present: Water Wars: From Durban to Toronto A Public Forum with: Shelley Petrie...
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40-storey ROM condo
The Royal Ontario Museum wants to build a 40-storey condominium tower on the current site of the McLaughlin Planetarium, and says it expects the...
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SPACING PHOTOBLOG
If you haven’t already seen it, Spacing has launched our own photoblog, SpacingPhotos. Every weekday a new image related to a theme will be posted...
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These street are not made for walking
Christopher Hume wrote an excellent column yesterday in the Toronto Star about the state of walking in this city. Check it out here.
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URBAN SCREENS 2005
An international conference on the potential for those huge TVs that proliferate our cities will be held in Amsterdam this September. Similar to the piece...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered