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50 Objects That Define Toronto: CCM Bicycles
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: Board of Trade pitches myth of free transit
Among all the forms of magical thinking that infect the region’s political culture, none are as pernicious — or persistent — as the myth of free transit. Once every few years, the purveyors of Big...
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Book Review – Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal...
Editor: Stefan Al (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014) Although writing and research on informal settlements has increased significantly over the past decades, works that attempt to accurately capture...
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Meet 2017 Jane Jacobs Prize winners at YIMBY
Spacing is happy to present the 2017 winners of the Jane Jacobs Prize as part of the 10th annual YIMBY Festival. Come out to the ceremony and see which two Torontonians are recognized for their...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 018, The Battle of Portage & Main
In this special episode, we devote our entire time to an issue that’s plagued Winnipeg for nearly 40 years: pedestrians are not allowed to cross the major, iconic intersection of Portage and Main St....
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Computer love: Toronto’s first electronic dates
Bill McNeil and Judy Perry were among the first people ever fixed up by a computer. In 1957, three decades before the first dating websites and 55 years before Tinder, the 33-year-old CBC radio...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Old City Hall Gargoyles
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: Friedman House
Written by Richard Cavell, ORO Editions (2017) UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Following Dr. Friedman’s passing, the fate of the house was uncertain, and an attempt to acquire a heritage...
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LORINC: Sidewalk Labs has hit a roadblock
The City of Toronto last week clearly signaled to Waterfront Toronto (WT) that the tripartite development agency drastically overstepped its mandate by entertaining a proposal from New York-based...
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Notes from Italy
“To make this course of action clear to my French readers, I must explain that in Italy, a country very far away from us, people are still driven to despair by love.” Stendahl Stendahl Syndrome can be...
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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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