Urban Design
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The Lakeshore Median: Parkland or Parking?
There’s an article in the Globe and Mail today about the debate concerning parking for the newly restored Palais Royale. A plan is in place to put...
By Ian Malczewski -
Friday’s headlines
• Who said cops are lazy? Well, a Toronto Star reader did and asked the Fixer why, after nine years of amalgamation, the Toronto Police HQ on College...
By Matthew Blackett -
Three people don’t make it “mixed reviews”
The Star has an article today about the Queen’s Quay pedestrian/bike lane experiment. They had quotes from three residents who didn’t seem...
By Matthew Blackett -
A New Solar Power
What if every window in the financial district could be transformed into a translucent solar power generator, powering anything from the lights to the...
By Ian Malczewski -
We tear down the good to erect the bad
Toronto skyline, 1931 Christopher Hume had an excellent piece in the Star yesterday. His opening three paragraphs are a reminder of what we’ve let...
By Matthew Blackett -
Cool Mist in Qatar
As gas prices rise Toronto’s transit and cycling infrastructure is under attack. First it was the bike rings now it is the transit shelters...
By Chris Hardwicke -
High graffiti
Spacing Wire reader Mark Liechti sent along this image: graffiti on a building, really high up. That’s not what is impressive — rather, he...
By Matthew Blackett -
Weekend headlines on public space issues
• Running scared? Why dogs, Gardiner are not election issues [ Toronto Star ] • Ending GTA gridlock tops readers wish list [ Toronto Star ...
By Matthew Blackett -
Friday’s headlines before you leave for the long weekend
• The Way We Were: Simcoe Day history [ Toronto Sun ] • Up on cripple creek [ National Post ] • NYC group flunks T.O.’s waterfront ...
By Matthew Blackett -
Weekend headlines on public space issues
Christopher Hume has a great piece in the Star today about the redevelopment of Beirut during the 1990s and its connection to Toronto’s waterfront...
By Matthew Blackett -
Today’s headlines
Ryerson’s new Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre for Studies in Community Health • Dirty beaches spark debate in Ajax [ Toronto Star ] • Hume...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Dry Docks
There was an epic length article a few years ago in Toronto Life that focused on The Docks and owner Jerry Sprackman, a man who never met a zoning...
By Shawn Micallef