Urban Design
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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 -
City Council boards the DRL bandwagon
Map courtesy of C. Livett; adapted and based upon 1980s Network 2011 DRL plan. Yesterday at the meeting of city council, the Yonge North subway extension...
By Sean Marshall -
Building Storeys: Little House in the Valley
Milne House (2008), photographed by Olena Sullivan ED: Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema will be making a series of posts on structures around the...
By Gary Miedema -
Twitter, Toronto, the TTC, & Me (and you)
The first topic in my rebooted biweekly column at Eye Weekly is about Twittering in Toronto. I’ve written a few times about Twitter here, mostly...
By Shawn Micallef -
Home Depot pulls out of Queen-Bathurst development
Spacing reader Darwin O’Connor pointed us towards a developing story on development: Home Depot has pulled out of the Queen-Portland construction...
By Matthew Blackett -
More on David Mirvish Books
More info on the closing of David Mirvish Books in an email from Eleanor Johnston, the store’s manager: “I think the most succinct answer to...
By Leah Sandals -
A buried neighbourhood
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing illustrator and contributor Mathew Borrett has joined our blog team and will post occasionally about interesting finds in the...
By Mathew Borrett -
Saving a suburban supermarket
The Metro grocery store at Parkway Mall at Ellesmere and Victoria Park in Scarborough (Google Map |MSN Live Search Map) was just nominated for historical...
By Sean Marshall