Urban Design
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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 -
Today’s public space headlines
BB King at the rebuilt Colonial Tavern, 1977 • City’s oldest firehall show its age [ Globe and Mail ] • Construction begins on new...
By Matthew Blackett -
Register for Toronto Green Building Festival
Toronto Regional Green Building Festival Second Annual Conference and Trade Show October 31 – November 01, 2006 Canadian Broadcasting Centre, 250...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto Star’s “What If…” section continues
Spacing was excited to be referenced a few times in the Toronto Star’s “What If…” section back in April. The paper used a few...
By Matthew Blackett