Urban Design
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SPACING RADIO: Smitherman talks walking, while walking
LISTEN TO THIS SPACING RADIO PODCAST George Smitherman loves to walk. Earlier this week, in fact, he walked along Eglinton — all the way across Toronto. I...
By Todd Harrison -
VIDEO: Nothing is higher than an architect
If you live in a place without air conditioning than you can relate to my current plight: the heat wave is making it difficult for me to sleep at night...
By Matthew Blackett -
Cities for People — Toronto Port Lands
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class is about)...
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MuchMusic’s big downtown campout
In a clear case of hero worship gone haywire, hundreds of people are presently camped out on sidewalks surrounding MuchMusic’s headquarters at Queen and...
By Todd Harrison -
The diplomacy and politics of biking in Toronto
The following is a reprint of my recent psychogeography column in Eye Weekly on cycling in Toronto. As columns go, it was near the top in terms of the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Complete Streets: How to build them
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part two of a two-part series on Complete Streets. Check out Hilary’s first post from May 23, 2010. If we want...
By Hilary Best -
Complete Streets: What they are and why we need them
Conversations about the architecture of Toronto’s streets tend to be terribly divisive. You’re either a cyclist or a driver. A transit user or a...
By Hilary Best -
Metrolinx releases revised transit timetable
At the Toronto Board of Trade yesterday, Metrolinx Chair Robert Pritchard officially announced the revised timetable for construction of the Transit City...
By Sean Marshall -
Tonight! Take a Stroll with Shawn
UPDATE: Coach House Books will be selling copies of the infamous 1975 “CN Tower Fall Zone” poster that we wrote about in 2006. WHAT: Launch of...
By Matthew Blackett -
EVENT: NFB turns camera on Toronto’s high-rises
The following is a reprint of my recent Psychogeography column in Eye Weekly on the NFB’s Highrise project. This spring, the participants of The...
By Shawn Micallef -
Toronto vs. Manchester at the FutureEverything Festival
Next week I’m on a panel called Shaping the City at FutureEverything, an art-music-conference-festival in Manchester, England. FutureEverything, in...
By Shawn Micallef -
Spacing nominated for Best Single Issue of 2009
Spacing is happy to announce that the summer-fall 2009 issue of the magazine was nominated for Best Single Issue by the National Magazine Awards. This is...
By Spacing