Urban Design
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The urban environment can make you skinny — or fat
A new research project is being developed in the United States to quantify the degree to which the urban environment — mixed use, density, public...
By Dylan Reid -
A TTC crush? And public meeting at Wychwood Barns
There have been two stories in the last two days on the TTC that have focused on the need for more funding as ridership continues to grow. Is the solution...
By Matthew Blackett -
Tall buildings forum tonight
TALL BUILDINGS ~ Who is Planning Our City? TONIGHT! 7:30-9:30pm, free St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front Street East (2 blocks east of Union...
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Toronto and tall buildings
TALL BUILDINGS ~ Who is Planning Our City? Wednesday January 25, 7:30-9:30pm, free St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts 27 Front Street East (2 blocks east of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Birmingham pedestrians and Public Space
The city of Birmingham, formerly a car-centric industrial city, has tranformed its central core into a pedestrian-friendly neighbourhood of pleasing...
By Dylan Reid -
When condos attack and defending suburbia
Eye Weekly is running a series of articles on development in Toronto. In the first piece, “Beyond NIMBY,” Spacing‘s managing editor Dale...
By Matthew Blackett -
Royal Mess
Today, the Toronto Star’s “Fixer” column features a corner of Royal York road where people waiting at a TTC bus stop have been...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto’s New Year resolutions
This might be a good time to lay out our wish list for 2006. • Do not approve the EUCAN monster bins: Within the coming months, the City’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto’s Public Spaces in 2005
Both Eye Weekly and NOW ran excellent 2005 year in review features. Here’s the stuff they pointed out that the Spacing Wire thinks is worth...
By Matthew Blackett -
Reading Toronto
Some might say that the Reading Toronto blog is our competition, but in fact they are our friends. RT offers readers intelligent critique and ideas that...
By Matthew Blackett -
The suburban loft
If we needed another signal of the demise of the urban loft, it has arrived. A development in a suburb of Denver is experimenting with the suburban...
By Matthew Blackett -
Public squares around the world
NOTE: The Spacing Wire will be posting only occasionally throughout the next week — The Editors Probably the best North American resource for...
By Matthew Blackett