The Star
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More St. Clair ROW stuff
The Globe and Mail wrote about the City of Toronto’s plan to challenge the three-panel judges decision to stop construction of the St. Clair...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Toronto Effect
According to the Star today: Toronto is becoming more architecturally diverse and denser which is helping some people give up their cars with the added...
By Chris Hardwicke -
No way, Segway!
The City of Toronto did the smart thing yesterday by rejecting the idea of a pilot project that would allow Segways on to our sidewalks. Robyn Reisler...
By Matthew Blackett -
Private money in public infrastructure
Christopher Hume, in the Star today, writes about the need for the private sector to invest in building Toronto’s future infrastructure. I’m...
By Matthew Blackett -
Saving St. Clair? Judge rules today
Somthing to watch for today: a court decision on whether to let construction of the St. Clair Right of Way to continue. In the Star today they sum it up...
By Matthew Blackett -
City Council this week
There are some interesting things going down at September’s meeting of City Council. Here’s a primer: 1. Video screens on the Gardiner: As the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Patchwork soccer
Spacing‘s “Work and Play” issue discussed the importance of play in public space, both as a way of asserting public use of space, and as...
By Dylan Reid -
Guerrilla Gardening in the Star (again)
Yes, it was only two weeks ago when the Toronto Star did a feature on Guerrilla Gardening, but Christopher Hume looks at the act of vandalizing with...
By Matthew Blackett -
Finding the soul of Toronto
Spacing‘s friend Pier Girogio DiCicco, Toronto’s poet laureate, wrote an emotional piece in the Star about Toronto and the city’s search...
By Matthew Blackett -
Meeting on the fate of the Gardiner & Street Design
Thursday August 11, 2005 starting at 6:30 Location: 115 the Esplanade (near Church St.) East meeting room, ring bell 6:30pm: street design 7:30pm: the...
By Shawn Micallef -
The City as a Playground
Back in Spacing #3 (Work & Play issue, Dec. 2004) we profiled parkour and urban games. The Star and the Globe have recently caught on to these...
By Matthew Blackett -
Trashing EUCAN bins
Toronto Star columnist Slinger wrote a great piece ripping apart the EUCAN monster garbage bins. And he didn’t stop the blame game there — he...
By Matthew Blackett