Urban Design
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NO MEAN CITY: ‘tactical urbanism’ and the Green Line
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Architects and urban designers, have a look at this: The Green Line, a new...
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Urban Planet: Mesmerizing visualizations of mass-transit
While you are riding the overcrowded bus to work, it might be impossible to imagine how many other people, on innumerable forms of transit, are scattered...
By Jonathan Zettel -
KEN GREENBERG: The debilitating myth of a divided Toronto
This is a crucial passage for Toronto, one that will call upon all of our collective ingenuity and reserves of good will to get beyond the debilitating...
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Spacing’s Shawn Micallef talks suburbs, cupcake urbanism and divided people at TEDxToronto
The TEDxToronto affiliate in Toronto has grown to be one of the bigger events associated with the TED conference in California. Spacing’s Shawn...
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EVENT: Transport Futures Governance Summit
The folks at Transport Futures are offering Spacing subscribers a 15% discount on their upcoming Governance Summit, which takes place November 19th at the...
By Dale Duncan -
LORINC: Understanding the pressures of downtown development
Just in time for Halloween, Tom Jakobek, Toronto’s most infamous undead politician, appeared at a community meeting last week to rally the locals against...
By John Lorinc -
The Convention Centre, Norman Foster and imaginary parks
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture The Globe and Mail reports today that Oxford Properties, the large developer...
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Headspace: Catherine Nasmith discusses heritage preservation and the Mirvish-Gehry proposal
Catherine Nasmith is former president of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and a founder of Doors Open Toronto. She has been active in heritage...
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Riverside WALKfest this Saturday October 20th — lots of walks, one with Spacing’s Shawn Micallef
It’s a great weekend for walking in Toronto, especially in around Queen Street East and the Riverside neighbourhood. This Saturday is WALKfest (with...
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Now you too can add people randomly to streetscapes!
A couple of months ago, I posted about the habit of architecture firms randomly Photoshopping people into their designs, without necessarily any relation...
By Dylan Reid -
EVENTS: Toronto Talks
With the academic year now well underway, there is an abundance of free lectures taking place in Toronto. Here are a few that are happening this week...
By Dale Duncan -
NO MEAN CITY: Superkul’s Gradient House in Kensington
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I have a story in The Globe and Mail today about a modest but fascinating...
By Alex Bozikovic