Waterfront
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A suggested work-around for the Queen’s Quay conundrum
This week, we heard that the long-standing plans for converting the southern part of Queen’s Quay Boulevard into attractive, landscaped walking and...
By Dylan Reid -
On the waterfront, and what we can learn from Philadelphia
It’s been a bad month for those of us who care about urban design, or the big picture about city-builidng, in Toronto. Forget New York run by the...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Headspace: The Fort York Pedestrian Cycle Bridge
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
Sunday Morning (Island) Shinny
In my story for the Winter issue of Spacing, I wrote about a women’s hockey league that plays on the frozen lagoons of the Toronto Islands every...
By Ian Malczewski -
LORINC: Let’s Play Ball with the Waterfront (Again)!
The brothers Ford launched a big boulder in the direction of Waterfront Toronto last week, first denigrating the agency’s efforts as a “boondoggle” and a...
By John Lorinc -
Headspace: Brian Iler from Community Air discusses the tunnel
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
Hope springs eternal at Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner
A young man took the podium near the beginning of the recent Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner for the Living City. He read a poem he wrote about the...
By Jessica Lemieux -
The answers are blowing in the wind
Todd Irvine, Spacing’s former Green Space columnist, is now writing for Eye Weekly. This is a cross-post from Eye about Windfest. Spacing is a proud...
By Todd Irvine -
NO MEAN CITY: Sweet times at Sugar Beach
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Two weeks ago I took my son to Canada’s Sugar Beach. He’s a toddler, and I...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Ontario Place needs to keep its hot pants on
The following is a reprint of my recent psychogeography column in Eye Weekly looking at the future of Ontario Place. The photos included in this post are...
By Shawn Micallef -
How to (not) promote access to the waterfront
I’m not sure if anyone else has noticed but Toronto’s waterfront doesn’t seem to be on the radar of the mayoral candidates in this...
By Matthew Blackett -
Sugar Beach an urban oasis
Toronto’s second waterfront beach officially opened Monday morning with all three levels of government in attendance to celebrate the cooperation that...
By Nicole McIsaac