Urban Design
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A tardy alt-weekly round up
This week, NOW’s Mike Smith writes about TTC development: Other side of the tracks. He focuses on the idea of selling TTC land to developers, as a...
By Spacing -
Monday’s links to weekend articles
This is the best photo of Toronto I have seen in a long time. It was posted in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool and is making the rounds on the internet...
By Matthew Blackett -
Nathan Phillips Square re-design finalists announced
photo by Sam Javanrouh • see it larger A short-list of finalists have been annouced in the re-design of Nathan Phillips Square. The jury studied...
By Matthew Blackett -
Thursday’s compendium of links
Moscoe touts landlord licences [Toronto Star]: You need a licence to drive a car, why not a licence to be a landlord? That seems to be the thinking behind...
By Matthew Blackett -
Friday’s mid-afternoon links to run out the day
Kensington Market declared national historic site [National Post]: Kensington Market, that neighbourhood that has survived for 80 years as a good place to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Scarborough in the NOW
NOW city hall reporter (and Spacing contributor) Mike Smith looks at the issues facing the former municipality of Scarborough over the next four years...
By Dale Duncan -
Goodbye Stump (Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em)
The scene Monday in front of Scotiabank Centre was loud. The Murray Demolition company (I always wonder what the omnipresent Toronto demolisher Murray...
By Shawn Micallef -
Carlton Canyon
The walk west on Carlton has changed over the past year and become quite a nice and cozy canyon. The addition of the new glass condo just east of Yonge...
By Shawn Micallef -
Soccer fields in the Port Lands — the continuing debate
A view from what will one day be called Lake Ontario Park. Thursday night, I went to the Port Lands Action Committee meeting to learn more about the...
By Dale Duncan -
The Kids are Alright
(Image of the Wyld-Darling building on Bay Street, after the 1904 fire — via Toronto Archives) John Barber’s Globe column today, A city in...
By Shawn Micallef -
The fate of the Cherry Beach trees
Anyone interested in learning more about plans to build soccer fields on the contaminated, but forested, soils by Cherry Beach — and judging by the...
By Dale Duncan -
Sexy public transit, part I
Which proposal looks sexier: a Toronto-wide network of BRTs and LRTs (first map) or the Spadina subway extension (second map)? POTENTIAL FUTURE BRT/LRT...
By Craig Cal