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Book Review From the Stacks – More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
Editor: Jennifer Siegal (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) More Mobile is the little book that roared. About the size of a stack of old 6”x 9” photos (remember those), this modest 145-page book...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 006 – PopCanCrit: Meet the Critic
This October, some of the foremost authorities in Canadian architecture criticism convened in Ottawa for PopCanCrit, to discuss the future of popular criticism in architecture. In this, Part One of a...
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WWW: New urban food innovations from around the world
Alternatives to urban food waste How cities are implementing creative solutions to reduce and reuse the excessive quantity of food waste amassed by households and retailers. The rise of online grocery...
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Do “Slow Down” lawn signs actually work?
“Slow Down, Kids at Play” lawn signs proliferated in Toronto in the last couple of years as part of a private campaign in the wake of the death of a child hit by a car in Leaside. This spring, the...
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How do books on Toronto stack up?
On top of my publisher and creative director duties with Spacing magazine, I also look after the book section in the Spacing Store. I’ve tried to keep a wide collection of titles in stock that reflect...
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The rise and fall and rise of St. Lawrence Hall
In 1966, Toronto’s St. Lawrence Hall was in terrible shape. The venerable old neoclassical building at the southwest corner of King and Jarvis streets was partially derelict—its stonework and chimneys...
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LORINC: The new Toronto Courthouse emerges from The Ward
As archeologists begin to reveal two centuries of commerce on the North Market site, Toronto’s other major active dig site – the Centre Avenue parking lot that’s set to become a major new courthouse –...
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LORINC: Why doesn’t Ontario’s NDP get road pricing?
How long do progressives and urban dwellers more generally have to wait before Ontario’s NDP stops compensating (atoning?) for former premier Bob Rae’s decision, circa the early 1990s, to slap tolls...
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Metrolinx’s suburban plans for an urban transit system
At its last board meeting on December 8, Metrolinx presented an update on the status of 12 new GO Transit rail stations, all located on existing lines. Eight of these proposed new stations are located...
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WWW: Alternative housing options not just for the Dutch and hippies
Mutually beneficial housing relationships between students and seniors A Dutch hosing development provides free housing for students in exchange for an allocation of 30 hours of their time, per month,...
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PARKS: The changing nature of parks — interview with Adrian Benepe
Ahead of Park People’s first national city parks conference in Calgary this coming March 2017, Park People’s Jake Tobin Garrett caught up with Adrian Benepe, Senior Vice President and Director of City...
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GIFT IDEAS FOR TORONTO: We ask Matt Galloway, Christina Zeidler, and David...
Are you short of ideas for the holidays? We asked Spacing staff and a handful of prominent Torontonians to suggest three gift ideas that you can pick up in the Spacing Store. We’ll run this feature a...
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READ: December 2016 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. An exploration of the new exhibits at...
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The forgotten victims of Canada’s pot laws
Trudeau’s federal task force on marijuana regulation and legalization has tabled a report, complete with over 80 recommendations that seeks to set the federal government on a path towards a legal and...
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Book Review: Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585
Edited by Todd Gannon (Applied Research & Design Publishing, 2016) No. 9 – Source Books in Architecture Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585, the ninth in the Source Books for Architecture series,...
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401 Richmond is already at its highest and best use
I loved 401 Richmond before I even knew what it was. It was 9 years ago and I was in Toronto, visiting from Vancouver. My friend Lauren, a curatorial student, took me out to a party. We pulled up to a...
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WWW: Rethinking urban space
Designing urban spaces for women How Vienna incorporates gender into public policy and urban planning practices to promote inclusive urban design. Placing pedestrians first to improve urban livability...
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LORINC: A watchdog for all those $2 road tolls
During the (only half-finished) debate over John Tory’s road tolls scheme, the mayor offered up what looked mostly like a nerve-soothing rider for the right — a request for staff to investigate the...
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WWW: Making art functional in cities around the world
Alleys to Art A neighborhood in Philadelphia has transformed a formerly derelict alleyway into a work of art by installing a glowing LED mural. The project aims to improve the safety of underused...
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The Shell Oil Tower is a lost 1950s masterpiece
A little over 30 years ago this winter, one of Toronto’s earliest Modern buildings was pulled to the ground. When the Shell Oil Tower at Exhibition Place was completed in 1955, Toronto didn’t have any...
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