Urban Design
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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...
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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...
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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 -
The Call of the (Art) Mall
Whenever I visit my dad in South Florida, we go to the Aventura Mall. It’s a long story, but basically my dad loves shopping. Love might be too weak...
By Leah Sandals -
Losing a sense of “place”
I’ve been clearing out my old files, and I came across an article given to my me a couple of years ago by walking activist Helen Riley...
By Dylan Reid -
GO Transit’s new bike shelters
On a recent visit to my hometown of Brampton, I noticed a new GO Transit bike shelter freshly installed in front of the downtown Brampton station. The...
By Sean Marshall -
Lake Ontario and the signs that regulate our relationship with it
A Sunday walk along a choppy Lake Ontario to deserted HtO Park yesterday presented little distraction from reading the many signs in the Harbourfront...
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New Art of Suburbia — thoughts from Scarborough
ED: Tim Whalley, Executive Director of the Scarborough Arts Council, contributed the following reflection on the New Art of Suburbia panel that took place...
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Inside the belly of the General Motors headquarters
With the possible evaporation of the automobile industry — and especially GM’s near bankruptcy — a shot of the GM headquarters in...
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AGO Transformation transforms our views of Toronto
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog in anticipation of the grand re-opening...
By Shawn Micallef