Urban Design
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Outside perspective: Toronto grows tall
Back in October we published James Rojas’s mini-essay “Toronto’s Messy Urbanism from the perspective of an Angeleno,” his...
By Shawn Micallef -
Tree Tuesday: New townhomes
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
The Agenda: this week at City Hall
Toronto City Council has a heavy agenda [PDF] to get through at its meeting scheduled to run on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are highlights of some of the...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Growth of density in Toronto since 1971
[flv]http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/popdwell/maps/animations/CMAs/Toronto.swf[/flv] While I was catching up on Spacing Montreal posts...
By Matthew Blackett -
It was twenty-seven years ago today…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm68UteL0M[/youtube] …that John Lennon was killed in New York. There are many memorials to Lennon on YouTube...
By Shawn Micallef -
Stroll: Don Mills & photos from the Moccasin-Rainbow trail
This week’s stroll column in Eye Weekly had me wandering around Canada’s most famous suburb, Don Mills. I remember while growing up Don Mills...
By Shawn Micallef -
Lobbying for a Registry: Exhibit C
I didn’t intend for this to become a recurring feature but it seems Lobbying for a Registry may be just that — at least until there’s a...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
The GTTA is Now Metrolinx
The Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (or GTTA) has come up with a new marketing name and a new website. The new name is Metrolinx. The name and...
By Sean Marshall -
The Wild Queen West
For a while now I’ve been trying to wrap my head around exactly what the plans are for the Queen West Triangle. While the slew of developments...
By Duncan Patterson -
ROM tries to move hot dog vendors “blocking Crystal view”
I just returned from a museums conference in Ottawa and was just sorting through my notes to post soon on a few of the surprisingly positive public space...
By Leah Sandals -
Taddle Creek Tenth Anniversary
While we at Spacing are about to launch our 10th issue next week, the literary magazine named after one of Toronto’s lost creeks is celebrating...
By Shawn Micallef -
Tree Tuesday: Nature in the cracks
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine