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Not In My Front Yard: The controversy of installing sidewalks
McNicoll Avenue at Boxdene Avenue. There’s no sidewalk on the south side of this busy Scarborough road. It might come as a surprise that nearly 25...
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LORINC: Transit relief is long way down the road
If you have kids or once were one, you may have recognized the tactic that York Region’s politicians attempted last week when they scurried off to Ottawa...
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Toronto’s Art Deco legacy celebrated
Facing each other across Spadina Avenue just north of Adelaide, the Tower and Balfour Buildings frame a striking entryway into Toronto’s Fashion District...
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How Exhibition Place got the retro Dufferin Gate
You can tell a lot about a place by how it greets its visitors. The goofy lights at Honest Ed’s tell customers “there’s no place like...
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The creation of Toronto’s first City Hall and market buildings
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was written in 1985 by Stephen Otto for a catalog that was never published to accompany the exhibit “Meeting Places...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Evolution of public art policy in Toronto
By: Jeff Biggar Public art has a storied past in Toronto’s History. The City of Toronto’s public art collection stems back to the late 19th century, with...
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LORINC: Airport and Portlands to be transit hubs of activity?
All of a sudden, two glimmering celestial objects have appeared in the night sky above that fantastical dreamscape we sometimes refer to as Greater...
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The modernist Bloor-Danforth line at 50
The Bloor-Danforth line turned 50 today. Five decades ago, on February 25, 1966, the first section of Toronto’s first east-west subway opened...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Interview with Barbara Astman
Barbara Astman is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Toronto and specializes in photography and new media. Her artworks are in both public and...
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Come to our release party tonight!
WHAT: Release party for Winter 2016 issue of Spacing WHEN: TONIGHT! 7pm-11pm WHERE: 610 Markham St., one block from Bathurst & Bloor COST: free! (mag...
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LORINC: Tell me how Toronto will pay for transit plans — then I’ll get excited
A few years ago, University of Toronto Schools teacher Josh Fullan and I concocted a transit game for the students in his Maximum City program. Each group...
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The night Neil Young was conceived
It was the last winter of the Second World War. 1945. The first week of February. Far away in Europe, the Nazis were crumbling: the Soviets were closing...
By Adam Bunch
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered