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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...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 004, Hollywood North
In the wake of the Toronto International Film Festival, we take a look at the film and television industry’s impact on the city. We talk to...
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John Bentley Mays’ Emerald Toronto
John Bentley May’s (1941-2016) passed away last week. Read Alex Bozikovic thoughtful obituary here. When I first moved to Toronto in 2000 I spent a...
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Heritage conservation districts are long overdue
This is a guest post by Mary L. MacDonald (Senior Manager, Heritage Preservation Services, City Planning) in response to Spacing’s article by...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Fleeting Futures – An Interview with Art Spin
Interview by: Ilana Altman Art Spin is a professional arts presenter, activating decommissioned venues and unique public spaces to produce large scale...
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The space age Parkway Plaza, Toronto’s first heritage supermarket
It was only a shopping mall, but when the Parkway Plaza opened at Ellesmere Road and Victoria Park Avenue in 1958, it signalled the arrival of space age...
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Misuse of Heritage Conservation Districts can deaden both past and future
The City of Toronto believes it has found a silver bullet to control development pressure in the downtown core through the use of a tool known as a...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Urban Media Art: New Directions for Public Art and Cities
By Dave Colangelo You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out. And yes, you shake it all about, as prompted by the screen in front of you. Soon...
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LORINC: Housing affordability, not hydro bills, is what’s really hurting Ontario
As has been widely reported, the showpiece of Kathleen Wynne’s Monday Throne Speech is a pledge to reduce runaway hydro bills by 8%, courtesy of a...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered