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Meet the 2017 Jane Jacobs Prize winners
The Jane Jacobs Prize is an annual award, presented by Spacing, that celebrates individuals who contribute to the fabric of Toronto life in unique ways that exemplify the ideas of Jane Jacobs. The...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: TTC Transfer
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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EVENT: Shawn Micallef talks about Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of...
WHAT: Author talk WHERE: Toronto Reference Library main atrium – 789 Yonge St. WHEN: Monday Dec 18th, 7PM-8PM HOW MUCH: Free Spacing senior editor Shawn Micallef will discuss his recent book, Frontier...
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LORINC: New subway extension overshadows other important transit news
All the hype and posturing that accompanied this weekend’s subway opening effectively obliterated a bit of news about a small transit infrastructure project that will almost certainly be a...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Banting and Best’s Colorimeter
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 – Rethinking A Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
Author: Eran Ben-Joseph (MIT Press, 2015) Surface parking lots are ever-present in the contemporary city. Moovelab’s incredible visualization project What the Street!? that inventoried parking lots in...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 019, Out In The Cold
In this episode, we speak to Toronto Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam about the desperate call to provide more shelter space this winter. Toronto Park People’s Jake Tobin Garrett tells us about a new park...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Canister of Pablum
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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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Batteryless Radio
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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READ – Winter 2018 edition of Fife and Drum: Bentway Skate trail opens, the...
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. Bentway Skate Trail Opens @ Fort York on...
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LORINC: Can John Tory Turn the Page on the Shelter Crisis?
I haven’t observed a political crisis this ripe with potential since that weird interlude during the 2008 credit meltdown when the leaders of the federal Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois suddenly...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Buried Harbord Street Bridge
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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Women Mobility Survey and #UrbanDesign4Women Twitter Chat
RELEASE: Slow Streets Have you ever wondered if our city streets, mobility networks, and public spaces could be redesigned to enhance the well-being and safety of women and girls? Slow Streets would...
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Book Review – The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Author: Stefan Al (The MIT Press, 2017) The first time I visited Las Vegas, I was quickly taken aback at the structures. I’d just returned home a week earlier from a trip to the Atacama desert in...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Macdonald-Cartier Freeway Sign
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 – Destination Architecture
Author: Phaidon Editors (Phaidon Press, 2017) The global perspective provided by this portable book makes it the ideal companion for all travelers who love architecture. It includes work from...
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LORINC: Wynne’s Liberals gut their own affordable housing policy
Remember when inclusionary zoning was going to solve Toronto’s affordable housing crisis, or at least take a big step towards ameliorating it? Let’s travel back in time to that shining moment in the...
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Mapping Toronto’s approved new ward boundaries
On Monday, October 22, 2018, Torontonians will be electing a new city council. And for the first time since 2000, Toronto’s ward boundaries will be changing. When the new council is formed on December...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Hand-drawn Signs from Honest Ed’s
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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Find Spacing stories on new app Driftscape
In 1796, Chief Wabakinine of the Mississaugas was murdered by British soldiers roughly at the base of Parliament Street. You can learn this fact — as well as the important backstory for this event —...
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