Urban Design
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Shops at Don Mills: The Newest Grey Space
Last week, the new Shops at Don Mills opened at Lawrence Avenue and Don Mills Road, in the heart of the pioneering 1950s suburb developed by EP Taylor.The...
By Sean Marshall -
Jane’s Walk – Towers on the Ravine
Cross-posted from ERA Architects‘ Tower Renewal Blog. Day: May 3rd Time: 11 am Start Location: North Kipling Community Centre, at 2 Rowntree Rd...
By Ian Malczewski -
Reading List: “True Urbanism” by Mark Hinshaw
It’s a curious experience to read a book where you agree with most of the ideas, but cringe at the way they are expressed. American urban planner...
By Dylan Reid -
Save Our (Heritage) Schools: The adaptive re-use of our dying institutional buildings
Across Ontario many communities are struggling with the loss of their small schools. Heritage schools are especially in danger; they have been for a long...
By Lauren Archer -
Jarvis Street — overdue justice for planning crimes
Top photo by Bitpicture. My recent Psychogeography column in Eye Weekly had me walking down Jarvis Street from Bloor to the St. Lawrence Market. I cross...
By Shawn Micallef -
ASK A PLANNER: Big Box and Leslieville
Spacing introduces a new and sporadic column called Ask A Planner. We’ll ask some of our sources to translate policy and bureaucrat-speak and give...
By Spacing -
The life of death in great Canadian cities
My psychogeography column in the Eye Weekly this week examines how death and location collide and overlap in the city. For a number of reasons notable...
By Shawn Micallef -
Toronto’s new-old is the new beautiful
My psychogeography column in the current edition of Eye Weekly looks at how Toronto’s combination of new and old buildings in close proximity to...
By Shawn Micallef -
Event Guide: “Urban Goddess: Jane Jacobs Reconsidered” — World premiere on TVO
TVO is premiering what sounds like an interesting documentary about Jane Jacobs’ legacy tonight (Wed. Feb. 18) at 10 pm. The documentary features...
By Dylan Reid -
Building Storeys: Long Live the Guild
The Guild Inn, 2008, by Olena Sullivan. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema final post in his series on at-risk heritage...
By Gary Miedema -
Yonge-Bloor Square?
Once a week I pass through the intersection of Yonge and Bloor. Most people see the Yonge-Bloor intersection as one of the city’s most prominent...
By Matthew Blackett -
(Psycho)Geographic boundaries and cozy urbanism
In my current Eye Weekly Psychogeography column I wrote about the psychological boundaries we — Torontonians — impose on ourselves, limiting...
By Shawn Micallef