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WWW: Cities of the developing world: forgotten spaces, hidden gems, and big...
The edges of a mega-city This photo essay documents the fringes of Mexico City, showing the forgotten spaces of urban perimeters. Constructing a capital Egypt’s ambitious plan for constructing a new...
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HULCHANSKI: Trudeau’s housing spending is smoke and mirrors
In a year when the high cost of housing dominates the headlines, this year’s federal budget is promoting a bright shiny object: the allocation of $11 billion for housing. Well before budget day, we...
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THE WARD MUSICAL: Songs and Sounds of a Lost Toronto Neighbourhood
If you try to imagine your way back into the early 20th century streets and laneways of The Ward — the dense immigrant enclave razed to make way for Toronto’s City Hall — you might pick up the sounds...
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WWW: Combating injustice with innovation and participation
Building floating cities in French Polynesia as an answer to climate change A Silicon Valley tech firm is developing self-contained, floating communities. These floating cities can potentially...
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LORINC: Why the Libs’ planning mistakes are fuelling the GTA’s real estate...
Until the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) released a new report showing that a shortage of supply wasn’t, in fact, the culprit in the speculative chaos that has seized the GTA’s housing...
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READ: Spring 2017 edition of Fife and Drum
The latest edition of Fife and Drum, the quarterly journal produced by the Friends of Fort York, was just released. Here’s some of what you’ll find inside. John Graves Simcoe’s First Fort York Thomas...
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The Sea Ranch – Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community...
Edited by Donlyn Lyndon & Jim Alinder, Princeton Architectural Press (2014) One hundred miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of...
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WWW: Inclusive urban visions
How to build inclusive communities Challenging urban segregation is essential for economic and social suitability but requires multiple forms of interventions to reverse the patterns of homogenous...
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Urban mosques: Places of worship that knit communities together
The attack on the mosque in Quebec City early this year left many Canadians deeply perturbed. While we were still grappling with the loss of lives and the event’s deeper implications on our collective...
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BIG NEWS! Toronto Public Etiquette Guide book launches on May 11
WHAT: Book launch for the Toronto Public Etiquette Guide WHEN: Thursday, May 11, 2017 — 7pm-10pm WHERE: Arts & Letters Club (14 Elm St, 2 blocks north of Yonge & Dundas) COST: free — book...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 011, Migration
In this episode, we speak to musician/composer David Buchbinder about The Ward Musical. How a Toronto history book became a new work of musical theatre. We ask FLAP executive director Michael Mesure,...
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The Artful City: Art That Belongs to All of Us
Interview by: Gill Baldwin The Artful City series looks beyond Toronto in a new set of articles and interviews investigating public art practices and programs across the country. For the first...
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Book Review: Seeing the Better City
Author: Charles R. Wolfe (Island Press, 2017) In many cities, the process of planning and designing our communities has become separated from the experience of living in them. Increasingly, abstract...
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WWW: Standing ground or biting the hand that feeds you?
Barcelona’s war on tourism How Barcelona is reclaiming the city for residents, not tourists in order to reinvigorate the central city and manage the hordes of tourists and industry that caters to...
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Stand right, walk left: the escalator algorithm
When Spacing asked Torontonians for their insights into Toronto public etiquette, one of the clearest and most repeated messages we got was, when on an escalator, stand right, walk left. As one of our...
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Book Review – Medieval Cities: Their Origins and The Revival of Trade
Author: Henri Pirenne (Princeton University Press, 2014) The late fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett once stated: “If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you...
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WWW: Street hawking economies are seeing changes
Increasing the hygienic standards for street food in rapidly developing urban centers In an effort to reduce food-borne illnesses that result from poor water quality and hygiene standards, a new type...
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Book Review: Reinventing the Automobile
Author: William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns (The MIT Press, 2010) One technology that is due for an update is the automobile. The design of a car follows the same...
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WWW: Cities fighting for the death of car culture
Make cycling cool again How China is attempting to reverse its car-centric, status oriented, development agenda and re-popularize the bicycle utilizing mobile technology. Taxis vs. Cyclists: How...
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A new low for the Scarborough Subway champion
For 2016’s annual Torontoist Heroes and Villains feature, I nominated Toronto Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker (Ward 38, Scarborough Centre) as villain of the year (“Pedestrian blaming” won that dubious...
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