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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...
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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...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered