Streetscape
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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...
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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...
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Lecture on “The New Landscape”
Christopher Hume profiles local landscape architect Janet Rosenberg in the Star today. She says interesting things about the difficulty of creating...
By Dylan Reid -
Making Toronto’s streets
Streets are at the heart of a city. They take up a quarter of all land in the city. They should be the places where people gather and experience urban...
By Dylan Reid -
Forget convenient Slurpees! I want convenient art!
Lest the promisingly whelming weekend art fairs left you over- or underwhelmed (or, uh, you just couldn’t make it) now might be the time to soothe...
By Leah Sandals -
Cariboo Avenue
(Crossposted with Spacing Votes — a tour of Cariboo Avenue) In a recent thread here on Spacing Votes, Danny Nardelli (the motorist responsible for...
By Shawn Micallef -
Is Queen Street Dead? & Funeral for a Building tomorrow
Put on your blackest of black art-discourse suits and your thinking cap tomorrow as the Toronto Alternative Art Fair International hosts an afternoon of...
By Leah Sandals -
Hume on our streets, why Canada is failing
Christopher Hume’s last two columns have been drop-dead accurate in my assumption. His piece on Toronto’s floundering streetscape in...
By Matthew Blackett