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NXT City Prize: Transforming streets with Calvin Brook
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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NXT City Prize: Bob Lehman and urban structure
The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity. With a focus on ideas...
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Remembering the Rogers Road streetcar
Intersection of Rogers and Old Weston Roads, looking west, August 4, 1972 From Toronto Archives – Fonds 1526, File 72, Item 61 At the end of rush...
By Sean Marshall -
Finding the Ravine: Gateway to Toronto’s Urban Edges
Editor’s note: This is the fourth post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece features...
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LORINC: An adult conversation about transit, redux
Last week, I proposed in this space three key moves that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals could make to signal their seriousness about funding GTA transit...
By John Lorinc -
That time when Toronto’s subway was the best in North America
With this post, Spacing Toronto welcomes a new contributor, Shoshanna Saxe. Shoshanna is a proud Torontonian and a civil engineer. From 2009 to 2012 she...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 5: The bottom line on the Scarborough subway
During tonight’s provincial election debate, Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath will spend plenty of time accusing Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal Party...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 4: Won’t somebody think of Bombardier?
According to the November, 2012, master agreement signed by Metrolinx, the City of Toronto and the TTC, the four-line LRT project included a hefty order...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 3: Ignoring the projected high costs and low ridership
When Toronto city council convened in July, 2013, to make a clear decision on the Scarborough subway conversion, City staff provided an estimate on the...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 2: “It’ll be over my dead body that Scarborough goes wanting for high speed transit”
On the surface, last summer’s council show-down over the Scarborough subway proposal was the culmination of a sustained political advocacy campaign by TTC...
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Mirvish + Gehry sing a new tune: A change of plans for King Street West
My, how things can change. With the recent announcement that Mirvish + Gehry Toronto, David Mirvish’s proposed mixed-use development under the...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 1: The political movements behind the Scarborough Subway
For the last five months Spacing has been investigating the political maneuvering behind the decision to build the Scarborough subway. This is part 1 of 5...
By John Lorinc