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Let’s build the Bathurst Bridge Toronto deserves
There is going to be a new bridge in town, and Toronto has a rare opportunity to build something great because the Bathurst Street Bridge is about to...
By Shawn Micallef -
Helmet policy causes conflict at city rinks
The City of Toronto is having difficulty enforcing a six-year-old helmet policy, which has come under criticism in the city’s south end. “We have...
By Kevin Kennedy -
Tree Tuesday: Comparing maples
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
Tree Tuesday: Good & eco in the garden of pizza
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
Jarvis slip design submissions released
Waterfront Toronto has released the 3 competing designs for the public space at Jarvis Slip at the foot of Jarvis Street (Christopher Hume of The Star...
By Robin Chubb -
Mapping our urbanism – watersheds
Along with its article today about the TRCA‘s work preserving watersheds in the GTA (Clock is ticking for conservation dream), The Star included a...
By Robin Chubb -
The end of Boston’s Big Dig
BOSTON — The most widely publicized attempt to rejuvenate a city scarred by an elevated expressway concludes today: Boston’s Big Dig has...
By David Pal -
Picturing DC
WASHINGTON DC — At the risk of turning this blog into Spacing DC, I’m going to share a few more public space-related photographs from my...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Winter cyclist profile – Deb, College of midwives CEO
Name / Occupation / Age Deborah Adams / Registrar & CEO, College of Midwives of Ontario / 39 years How often do you ride? Most days. I ride to work...
By Tammy Thorne -
ARCHIVES: White powder fun
During the holiday season Spacing will re-publish articles previously seen in our print edition. This article appeared in Spacing #3 (Work and Play)...
By Dylan Reid -
When animals fight back
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. In Toronto, raccoons and squirrels are par for the course, but as I learned this summer, just because they’ve adapted...
By Dale Duncan -
Budget committee backs down from funding bikes
We asked and asked. They listened (Councillor Perks did, anyway). But, alas, the Star reported this morning “Bike plan hits funding wall“: The...
By Tammy Thorne