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Event Guide: Danish urbanist Jan Gehl coming to Toronto
Danish architect Jan Gehl is one of the world’s foremost experts on transforming public spaces and creating walking-friendly environments. He led...
By Dylan Reid -
Gift Guide: City Walks – Toronto
City Walks: Toronto is a nicely-designed collection of 50 solid cards in an attractive box. Each compact card (4-1/16 x 5-5/8) has on one side a map with...
By Dylan Reid -
AGO Transformation transforms our views of Toronto
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog in anticipation of the grand re-opening...
By Shawn Micallef -
A tried and true alternate bus technology
In Saturday’s Headlines, Monica Warzecha posted a link to a Toronto Star article on the TTC’s problems with its hybrid diesel-electric bus...
By Sean Marshall -
Dalian: Heritage and Spectacle in China
Looking towards Friendship Square. The ball is supposedly supposed to resemble a soccer ball, and lights up in LED animations at night. While I was in...
By Sean Marshall -
Nuit Blanche performance looking for zombie participants
If walking around the city all night during Nuit Blanche is not enough for you, the Zombies in Condoland performance by Canadian artist Jillian McDonald...
By Shawn Micallef -
Streetcar Turnaround
The New York Times is reporting that American cities are seeing the return of the streetcar. Portland, Cincinnati, Denver (pictured above), Houston, and a...
By Monika Warzecha -
San Francisco’s Urbanist on Toronto
As has already been noted here on Spacing Toronto, a delegation from the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR) visited Toronto for...
By Shawn Micallef -
Malta observed: Valletta’s very urban streets
Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef is in his ancestral homeland of Malta and guest blogging on the Wired Malta blog this weekend and will be...
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Toronto from a San Franciscan’s perspective
Toronto writer Robert Fulford has called Toronto “San Francisco upside down” as our ravines echo that city’s famous hills. Connections...
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Best American cities to cope with an oil crisis
The American mainstream media can’t get enough news stories out of the rising cost of oil. The topic has three great storylines to highlight: the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Road Trip: Boston’s “T”
A crowded Green Line train at Park Street Station (Note: Recently, my computer crashed and I had trouble finishing my posts on Spacing Toronto of the road...
By Sean Marshall