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LORINC: Are Toronto’s high-rises safe for seniors? Part 1
This is part 1 of a 3-part series on the challenges faced by residents of Toronto Community Housing Marjorie MacMillan, a retiree who lives in the Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) senior’s apartment...
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Book Review – Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public
Author: Doug Suisman (ORO Editions, 2014) As an urban design instructor, practitioner and bibliophile, it is a rare pleasure to discover lesser known, critical and insightful books on urban structure....
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LORINC: How safe are Toronto’s high-rises? part II
In the aftermath of the Grenfell blaze that killed a still undetermined number of Londoners, many people in Toronto began asking the question, could it happen here? It’s an especially relevant query...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Toronto Purchase
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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LORINC: Does TCHC even know the extent of its fire risk? Part III
Just two weeks after Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) agreed to a $100,000 fine in the deaths of four seniors trapped in a fire in one of the agency’s apartment complexes on Neilson Road, another...
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Caribana and the meaning of ordered chaos
For nearly 40 years, Toronto’s Caribbean carnival was called Caribana. Since 2006, it’s been “Scotiabank Caribana,” “the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Toronto,” and “the Toronto Caribbean Carnival.” In...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 014, Summer Reading Series, Part I
Part One of our Summer Reading Series! We speak to Toronto journalist Jackie Burns about her children’s book “The Condo Kids: adventures with Bob the Barbary sheep,” and about raising a family in the...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: 1793 Plan of Town of York
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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LORINC: Dedicate foreign-buyers tax to social housing
The latest spitball fired in the ongoing pissing match between the City and the province came from the new Liberal housing minister, Etobicoke MPP Peter Milczyn, who yesterday accused John Tory and...
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Book Review: Binning House
Author: Matthew Soules (ORO Editions, 2017) Spending time in the Binning House is like being enveloped in a gentle super-reality, not a parallel reality, but a simple amplification or re-positioning of...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: 8th Regiment Cross Belt Plate
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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Book Review – You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Author: Wendy Lesser (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) When I was completing the final project of my Interior Design degree, I started the project off by buying a monograph of well-known modern...
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Scarborough’s gun violence a symptom of larger issues
In 2007, Toronto Life painted a depressing, dreary picture of Scarborough as being filled with street gang violence. In July, when 11 shootings took place there, three of which were fatalities, many...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Fragments of First Parliament Buildings of...
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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PODCAST: Bonus Episode, Beer Tour
After speaking to Robin Leblanc and Jordan St. John, co-authors of the “Ontario Craft Beer Guide,” our co-producers decide to take a tasting tour of some of Toronto’s indie beer offerings. Subscribe to...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Queen’s Wharf
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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The first Modern apartment complex in Toronto
The three towers of the City Park co-op apartments on Wood Street behind Maple Leaf Gardens don’t really stand out among the numerous high rises of the Church-Wellesley Village. But the anonymity of...
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Call for Entries: Urbanarium’s 2017 Missing Middle Housing Competition
What would it take to solve Vancouver’s housing crisis? The not-for-profit organization Urbanarium has issued an invitation to talented designers from around the world to develop and present...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: First Map of Toronto
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 015, Summer Reading Series, Part II
We speak to Globe & Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic about Toronto Architecture: a city guide, a series of guided walking tours through Toronto’s varied built landscape. And we speak to Jane...
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