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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...
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Going back in time to Toronto Island of the 1800s at Long Point
While gazing over old maps of Toronto, I often long to experience the city before its landscape was so significantly altered. What was it like when the...
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LORINC: Why a Patrick Brown government will target Greenbelt and Metrolinx
At this stage of the game, it would be foolish to depict Raymond Cho’s by-election victory for the Tories last week as a harbinger of anything in...
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Book Review: Toronto Then and Now
Toronto Then and Now is an elegant, large-format coffee table book that highlights the past and present of some of Toronto’s most interesting...
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LORINC: The next massive mural should be at Yonge & Bloor
It seems to me that the act of adornment – indeed, the compulsion to adorn – is a fundamentally human impulse that speaks to our deep craving for...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered