Urban Design
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One way to GO: Visiting Milton
Yesterday, I wrote about a poorly designed pedestrian connection between the YRT/Viva bus terminal and the Langstaff GO Station. But there are examples of...
By Sean Marshall -
Cities for People — Main Square
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 was...
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Cities for People – Crescent Town
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLV0FIxCRps[/youtube] This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer...
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Cities for People: The Melancholy of East Chinatown
This is the first in 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...
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Help Spacing locate new suburban developments
Spacing is working hard on the summer-fall 2009 issue but we need a little help from our readers (again). Our editors are trying to locate semi-finished...
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The rise and fall of Ontario’s first regional mall
In November, 1954, Ontario’s first regional shopping centre opened in East Hamilton – the Greater Hamilton Shopping Centre, or better known as...
By Sean Marshall -
Moonwalking Dundas Square
Moonwalkers from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo. When Michael Jackson’s death was announced, I never gave any thought to the possibility that Spacing would...
By Matthew Blackett -
Dept. of funny infrastructure: Eglinton @ Allen Road
One of the few pieces of cycling infrastructure that the City of Toronto has introduced in the past decade are white dots painted at semi-actuated...
By Sean Marshall -
Development signs of the times
Back in July 2008, I bemoaned the City of Toronto’s lack of decent signage for public notices related to development applications. Having spent a...
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Entertainment District’s Master Plan
This morning, the Toronto Entertainment District BIA unveiled their “Master Plan†to redevelop much of the downtown core. From Queen to the Gardiner...
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Townsend: Ontario’s phantom town
You have probably heard of ghost towns – once vibrant communities that slowly disappeared as local fortunes changed, or quickly abandoned due to...
By Sean Marshall -
Yonge and Bloor square revisited by Hume
Back in February, I was wandering through the construction site known as the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor. I made a quick post about the...
By Matthew Blackett