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LORINC: Tip of the City’s financial iceberg
Those grinding and rattling sounds you’ve been hearing in recent weeks could have come from a pre-Halloween party, but the source of the clamour has been...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 005, Shake It Up
This is the companion episode to the latest issue of Spacing Magazine, with a focus on celebrating women in city building. We talk to Pamela Robinson...
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LORINC: Why developing the Lower Don is a century-defining opportunity
Ever since then-Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney appointed David Crombie to head up a royal commission on the future of Toronto’s...
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When will Toronto love its Modern architecture?
What do you picture when you read the words “heritage building.”? It probably isn’t the Carlton Tower at Yonge and Carlton streets. The...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: An Interview with Public Art Management
Interview by: Ilana Altman Public Art Management (PAM) is one of Canada’s leading public art consulting firms. They have been actively curating and...
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Bonnie Crombie vs Mississauga’s race-baiters: Are symbolic gestures enough?
Earlier this month, Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie was lauded for standing up against racism for the second time in a year. On Sunday Oct. 9, she filed...
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REID: Dissecting the pedestrian countdown
The most important thing to realize about the pedestrian countdown signal is that it is only relevant to people who start crossing after the...
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2016 Heritage Toronto Awards
The Heritage Toronto Awards celebrate outstanding contributions in the promotion and conservation of Toronto’s history and heritage by professionals and...
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LORINC: Transit’s “last mile” solution may be mobility-as-a-service companies
I loath Rogers just as much as the next red-blooded Canadian, and, on certain days, possibly even more. But I have to give the telecom conglomerate, and...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Hacks and Workarounds: Improving the Public Art Commissioning Process
By: Helena Grdadolnik Workshop Architecture provides public art consulting for the Toronto Transit Commission, Infrastructure Ontario and various...
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New Fife & Drum issue + call for participation in editorial board
The latest edition of Fife and Drum, the quarterly journal produced by the Friends of Fort York, was recently released. Of interest to some Spacing...
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LORINC: Let’s actually talk about investing in housing
On and off since the early 1990s, when Paul Martin and Joe Fontana concocted an impossibly progressive policy agenda that became Jean Chrétien’s Red Book...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered