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Book Review – Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
We popularly tend to think of cities horizontally—as entities that blanket the terrain. This perception has been fostered by the bird’s-eye-view-of-the-world bias we’ve been bombarded with to over the...
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WWW: Changing various urban spaces to better serve residents and businesses
How a rural town rebuilt its main street economy from the bottom up With small towns falling on tough economic times, one Mississippi town successfully rebuilt its main street into a thriving...
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LORINC: The Scarborough subway extension’s escape hatches
When I look at the latest staff report outlining, ahem, progress on the Scarborough subway extension (SSE), I see a document absolutely packed with off-ramps, escape hatches, emergency brakes, and...
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The lost streets of South Parkdale
No Toronto neighbourhood paid for the Gardiner Expressway quite like Parkdale. Before construction of the lakefront highway in 1958, the land south of Springhurst Avenue and the rail tracks was just...
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The Artful City: A Year in Review
By: Jeff Biggar and Ilana Altman The Artful City was formed in 2015 with a simple mission to investigate public art in Toronto and spark a dialogue about its limitations and opportunities. The City’s...
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How Planning Institute Fees are Holding Us Back
Students conducting an active transportation audit. From @APA_Planning/Twitter Some believe that Canada’s provincial and national urban planning institutes are increasingly moving towards principles of...
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SPACING release party: March 15th at our store!
WHAT: Spacing issue #42 release party WHEN: Wednesday, March 15th, 7:30-11pm WHERE: 401 Richmond St West, Spacing Store entrance (east end of building, ground floor) COST: $5 (for mag), cash bar RSVP:...
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WWW: Unique ideas for navigating the city
Tricking traffic in Cambridge, England Does creating an artificial roundabout to confuse drivers slow traffic or simply cause an existential crisis? A German app that allows users to watch adds in...
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Why city issues are women’s issues
The 2016 Toronto International Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a documentary about the emergence of Jane Jacobs as a civic activist in New York City. In...
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Sex on Yonge: Examining the decade when Yonge Street was the city’s sin strip
“I take a walk down Yonge Street, where good times are bought and sold.” When folk music great Ian Tyson penned those lines in 1970, he knew his audience would understand. The idea of Yonge Street as...
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LORINC: Bombardier’s bribery problems in Europe hurt Toronto
To all the tornado chasers who spot the twisters whipping destructively across Toronto’s forlorn transit geography, add this storm system to your list of dark clouds. On the weekend, media reports...
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WWW: Stories of urban infrastructure
Learning from the mistakes of the High Line Planners rethink and reassess how the design of New York City’s High Line park could have better served the community it was constructed within and combat...
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Yonge Street Mall: The fun and failure of pedestrianizing Toronto’s iconic...
On June 3, 1971, there was a party on downtown Yonge Street. Around 8pm, following the news that Ontario Premier Bill Davis had cancelled the Spadina Expressway, jubilant opponents of the project...
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Book Review: POG – Pod Off-Grid
Author: Jason Pomeroy (ORO Editions, 2016) When people hear about the oceans rising due to climate change, their response is usually to shrug it off because it isn’t something that is immediately...
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WWW: Transit Transitions
Innovative on-demand bus service implemented in India The new service has faced legal and operational challenges but presents an interesting new alternative to traditional bus service in dense urban...
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Unpacking Kellie Leitch’s phony threat to sanctuary cities
In an echo of President Donald Trump’s policy-by-Twitter, MP Kellie Leitch has turned her attention to sanctuary cities. In a March 9, 2017 tweet, the Conservative leadership candidate wrote, “One law...
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By Alexandra Flynn Spacing In an echo of President Donald Trump’s policy-by-twitter, MP Kellie Leitch has turned her attention to sanctuary cities. In a March 9, 2017 tweet, the Conservative...
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EDITORIAL: It’s time to stop the Scarborough Subway
This is an editorial from the Spacing magazine team Make no mistake: the current Scarborough subway extension (SSE) plan has become this generation’s version of the 1970s Spadina Expressway battle — a...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: An Interview with Sean Martindale
Interview by: Melanie Fasche Sean Martindale is a Canadian artist and designer currently based in Toronto. He holds a Master of Fine Art from OCAD University, Toronto, and a Bachelor of Design from...
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John Tory is serving up a platform for Doug Ford 2018
Say you’re Doug Ford. Say you’re tuning in to Episode 237 of the Scarborough Subway Extension Netflix mini-series. Say you’re listening, in your predatory way, to Mayor John Tory, the Scarborough...
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