Urban Design
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Rejuvenating the waterfront, one big box store at a time
The land where the Toronto Film Studios sits is one step closer to being taken over by big box retail. Big box store developer Mitch Goldhar now owns a...
By Dale Duncan -
Toronto’s High Anxiety
High Anxiety: Can We Get the City and Skyline We Deserve? Thursday, October 19. Doors open at 6:30pm. Event begins at 7:00pm. Free. No registration...
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Hip to be square
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes • by David Scrivener With so much discussion about the redesign of Nathan Phillips Square in the media lately it seemed...
By Spacing -
Building Blocks Exhibition
If you’re ever bored, or hiding from a rainstorm, go to the forth floor of the Toronto Reference Library and page through the city directories and...
By Shawn Micallef -
Give your 2 cents on the future of Lamport Stadium
Allan A. Lamport stadium is falling into disrepair, and the City wants to fix it. Problem is, as is the case with so many other things that need fixing in...
By Dale Duncan -
Re-imagining Lamport Stadium
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes — post by Julia Lo Unless you play field hockey, it’s likely that most of you have never been to Allan A...
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Negotiating neighbourhoods
John Lorinc writes about Section 37 in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. The term refers to part of the Planning Act that allows the city and developers...
By Dale Duncan -
Hume’s Stockholm Syndrome II
Christopher Hume is on a Stockholm kick. Today in the Toronto Star he writes about Hammarby Sjostad, a waterfront community built over the last decade on...
By Matthew Blackett -
condo BOOM! opens next week
From September 21 to 30, The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West) will be hosting condo BOOM!, an exhibit that aims to explore “the marketing...
By Laura Hatcher -
Vancouver and Victoria public spaces
Andy Reeves will be covering ad creep and streetscape issues during the 2006 election for the Spacing Votes blog. Here’s a report by Reeves from his...
By Spacing -
Queen and Portland
The large parking lot at Portland between Queen West and Richmond is one of the last major undeveloped sections of Queen Street West, and as such holds...
By Dylan Reid -
Building Neighbourhoods along with Subways
Urban consultant and former councillor Richard Gilbert has a very interesting op-ed in the Star today arguing that each of the proposed new subway...
By Dylan Reid