Streetscape
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A bike-tastic vision for the waterfront
Paris bike lane pic by Gadl Last week I attended the first public meeting for the Central Waterfront redesign. I am happy to report that the presentations...
By Tammy Thorne -
Bye-bye monster bins, hello more headaches
EUCAN, the owners of the monster bins and silver boxes, have new owners who are re-branding the company Ecomedia. And the new owners have made every...
By Matthew Blackett -
Dale Duncan at City Hall: Jan. 18 2007
Spacing‘s managing editor Dale Duncan writes a weekly column for Eye Weekly focused on City Hall. Each week we’ll post her columns on the...
By Dale Duncan -
Civic improvements
CBC’s Metro Morning show this morning features an interview with Toronto’s chief planner, Ted Tyndorf, (RealPlayer streaming audio, 4:47...
By Dylan Reid -
ROM seeks free ride
When buildings intrude beyond their private property into public space, they have to pay a small rental fee to the City for that space. The Royal Ontario...
By Dylan Reid -
Best of 2006: Tree Pit Liberation
All over Toronto in 2006 people and businesses have been removing the cement covers that strangle our street trees, turning that little patch of uncovered...
By Shawn Micallef -
A tardy alt-weekly round up
This week, NOW’s Mike Smith writes about TTC development: Other side of the tracks. He focuses on the idea of selling TTC land to developers, as a...
By Spacing -
Bright and Fuzzy Lights in the Big City
When my sister and I were kids we would ride around Windsor in the back seats of our parents’ cars and rate Christmas displays as we passed them. If...
By Shawn Micallef -
A better street food scene?
Toronto’s street food scene is reduced to hot dogs and sausages — it seems the most variety you’ll find here is bacon bits at one vendor...
By Laura Hatcher -
Nathan Phillips Square re-design finalists announced
photo by Sam Javanrouh • see it larger A short-list of finalists have been annouced in the re-design of Nathan Phillips Square. The jury studied...
By Matthew Blackett -
Outer Space: public realm articles from around the world
St. Pancras in London, England, from The Guardian • The world’s most beautiful train stations [ The Guardian ] • San Diego’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
A compendium of links
Lightning loves the tower [Toronto Star]: Keraunophobes, don’t look up. The CN Tower is struck by lightning more frequently than any other structure...
By Matthew Blackett