Urban Design
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The public square we never got
Stephen Otto, one of the board members of the Friends of Fort York, slipped a print-out under Spacing’s office door a few weeks ago. It was the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Bike lane countdown 2007
This photo was taken by Martin Koob at the City’s cycling consultation session in July. A summary of that consultation can be found here. Remember...
By Tammy Thorne -
To expand or not to expand
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Yesterday, before the city’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee discussed a report (PDF) detailing many small...
By Dale Duncan -
The high cost of building parking lots
There is a great article published yesterday on Salon.com about the North American compulsion to build parking lots. It includes a look at “minimum...
By Shawn Micallef -
Tree Tuesday: Big old bitternut
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests (LEAF) will post a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project...
By Todd Irvine -
An attempt at live blogging the Great Queen Street Psychogeographic Walk
The idea of live blogging has never really appealed as writing is generally better when the author thinks about it for a while (there are exceptions of...
By Shawn Micallef -
The Great Queen Street Psychogeographic Walk
On Sunday September 30th Spacing Magazine and the Toronto Psychogeography Society present the Great Queen Street Psychogeographic Walk, part of the run up...
By Shawn Micallef -
Exploring the Pickering Airport Lands
Back in the early 1970s, the federal government had the idea that air traffic was going to grow exponentially, and that Malton Airport (now known as...
By Sean Marshall -
The Bathurst Street Bridge
Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef has an essay about the Bathurst Street Bridge in today’s Toronto Star Ideas section: The bridge is about as...
By Spacing -
New York to get naked (streets)
NEW YORK — In a city where pedestrian traffic rivals that of the vehicular congestion it’s not uncommon for the mass of walkers to spill out...
By Joseph Clement -
The CN Tower is bigger than its record
This week’s Eye Weekly Stroll column goes vertical and pokes around ideas of what the CN Tower (still) means to us now that its 30-plus-year run at...
By Shawn Micallef -
Pier 27: What kind of waterfront do we want?
(Photo taken of promotional display for Pier 27) Off the radar compared to many recent development proposals in this construction-crazy city, a new...
By Sean Marshall