Urban Design
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Jane’s Walk Guide: The Inner Suburbs
The second annual Jane’s Walk will be held on May 3 and 4. In anticipation of the event, Spacing will be highlighting some of the unique walks...
By Patricia Simoes -
TTC STRIKE: In the ‘burbs (and where are the pickets?)
I took a walk today to see what things were like at what should be TTC strike hotspots – the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 headquarters, and...
By Sean Marshall -
HOT DOCS Review: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates
As the introduction to Tehran Has No More Pomegranates declares, the film is “a musical, historical, comedy, docu-drama, love story, experimental...
By Patricia Simoes -
Toronto: A City Becoming… er, Way too Insular
So it’s a bit late for this, but I wanted to share a few thoughts from the Toronto: A City Becoming launch that happened on Monday night at the...
By Leah Sandals -
The case for a Downtown Relief Line
photo by Wylie Poon In the last 100 years, there have been many subway proposals that have come and gone. One of the first serious proposals, in 1911...
By Sean Marshall -
Mississauga not fiscal paradise anymore
The City of Mississauga, hailed by critics of the City of Toronto as a financially sustainable paradise for many years, is now anything but. It’s...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Deer hunting in Sudbury
Two weeks ago I spent Good Friday afternoon walking around the fine and solid City of Sudbury. Because it was a holiday the city felt silent and empty...
By Shawn Micallef -
Community mobilizes against Eastern Avenue development
Recently there has been a lot of noise about the proposed development by Smart!Centres on Eastern Avenue – a development suspected to be a Big Box...
By Ian Malczewski -
Searching for York
This past week’s Eye Weekly Stroll column had me climbing around the hills of York, the unsung city that once existed as part of Metropolitian...
By Shawn Micallef -
Let’s build the Bathurst Bridge Toronto deserves
There is going to be a new bridge in town, and Toronto has a rare opportunity to build something great because the Bathurst Street Bridge is about to...
By Shawn Micallef -
BOOKS: What are you reading?
For those of you with a city-focused book fetish, you should be looking forward to Spacing’s upcoming issue where we review a handful of excellent...
By Matthew Blackett -
Streetcars and LRT: Streetcar-oriented development
Mimico, one of Toronto’s outer streetcar suburbs As Toronto begins detailed planning and consultations for Transit City, it is also looking to...
By Sean Marshall