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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...
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Team Recess
Team Recess, a company “all about fun events for grown up Torontonians. Nothing too athletic and nothing too brainy, just a good time running around...
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Urbanism
Chris Hardwicke runs a wonderful wesbite called urbanism.org which is a portal to the planning and architecture world. It functions in a similar fashion...
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Flying the Blue Flag
In the last two weeks, both Eye and NOW have covered the Blue Flag project going on at some of Toronto’s beaches. Spacing editor Dale Duncan also...
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Dundas Square – worst of both worlds
The City of Toronto has agreed to start paying the operating costs of Dundas Square – including those security guards – but the space is still...
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Lakeside
Our very smart friends over the Toronto Environmental Alliance are getting into the cultural game with the opening on their art show Lakeside. The event...
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European talking about walking fest
The Swiss are hosting the 6th International Conference on Walking in the 21st Century, on the theme of “Everyday Walking Culture.” “The...
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Make your own Toronto brand
In response to the dreadful and much-maligned new Toronto Brand, the Globe and Mail is offering to publish alternative branding ideas. “Send in your...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto Trolls
The Toronto Troll project is currently running at Mercer Union. They’re going to do art stuff in the city at night to remind us that the city still...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered