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Chinatown: Uncovering the future in the past, and the present in the future. By Linda Zhang. The new issue of Spacing includes an article by Paula Tran, “What will happen to Toronto’s Chinatown?”.SPACING TORONTO
History The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” By Susan Grimbly. As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus.BOOK REVIEW
Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC Post-pandemic economic recovery requires strong public transit. The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a THE TWO WORLDS OF MY ETOBICOKE The two worlds of my Etobicoke. My childhood was spent surrounded by the Humber River and grocery stores. I live in Rexdale, where there’s not much to do and every reason to leave. For the first decade of my life, north Etobicoke was my world. My family were immigrants who arrived in Toronto in 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 City of Toronto jumped on the bandwagon by releasing its own “Slow Down” lawn signs, which it branded as its “Spring Safety Campaign.”The initiative was greeted with a certain amount ofTHE OLD NORTH END
A visit to Brunswick Street in 1966 – by Stephen Archibald. When I grew up in central Halifax in the 50s and 60s the residential portion of Brunswick St was foreign territory. Gottingen was a shopping and entertainment street but one street down, Brunswick was only useful as a short cut to the bridge. Anderson House. PHOTO DU JOUR: AIGUISAGE TONY Photo du jour: Aiguisage Tony. August 23, 2008 | By Christopher DeWolf. I still find it amazing that there is a knife sharpener whodrives around
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Chinatown: Uncovering the future in the past, and the present in the future. By Linda Zhang. The new issue of Spacing includes an article by Paula Tran, “What will happen to Toronto’s Chinatown?”.SPACING TORONTO
History The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” By Susan Grimbly. As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus.BOOK REVIEW
Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC Post-pandemic economic recovery requires strong public transit. The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a THE TWO WORLDS OF MY ETOBICOKE The two worlds of my Etobicoke. My childhood was spent surrounded by the Humber River and grocery stores. I live in Rexdale, where there’s not much to do and every reason to leave. For the first decade of my life, north Etobicoke was my world. My family were immigrants who arrived in Toronto in 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 City of Toronto jumped on the bandwagon by releasing its own “Slow Down” lawn signs, which it branded as its “Spring Safety Campaign.”The initiative was greeted with a certain amount ofTHE OLD NORTH END
A visit to Brunswick Street in 1966 – by Stephen Archibald. When I grew up in central Halifax in the 50s and 60s the residential portion of Brunswick St was foreign territory. Gottingen was a shopping and entertainment street but one street down, Brunswick was only useful as a short cut to the bridge. Anderson House. PHOTO DU JOUR: AIGUISAGE TONY Photo du jour: Aiguisage Tony. August 23, 2008 | By Christopher DeWolf. I still find it amazing that there is a knife sharpener whodrives around
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History The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” By Susan Grimbly. As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived SHINING A LIGHT ON TORONTO'S STREETLAMPS 1 day ago · Street lighting is an important, yet overlooked, part of any city’s standard infrastructure. For over seventy years, Toronto’s streets were lit with an elegant and increasingly unique streetlamp design. But modern standards and a desire for standardization will see this change, just as Toronto’s streetcars and street signs have. Starting in 1949, the City THE TRANZAC CLUB: “TORONTO’S LIVING ROOM” To me, the true draw, the action, is the music, because Tranzac has such a comfortable, drop-in kind of style. Where the Masonic Temple (once the Rock Pile) hosted bands you could lose your mind to, and the Colonial witnessed great jazz, the Tranzac was where the folkies clustered, like elves in a quiet cave. “For a long time, it was a real stronghold for folk, the classic form,” says REID: IS ACTIVETO ON LIFE SUPPORT? On a Sunday in the middle of May, I went for a bike ride along the south end of Bayview Ave., which was open to pedestrians and cyclists / closed to motor vehicles for the weekend as part of ActiveTO’s “Closing Major Roads” program.In a new expansion for 2021, the program extended all the way to Rosedale Valley Road, making it a more significant experience. SLEUTHING A GHOST SIGN ON RIVER STREET Ghost signs: The slowly fading hand-painted advertisements that cling to the sides of older buildings, redundantly promoting companies, products and services that disappeared long ago. I’ve been interested in them since I was a kid, because they trigger my curiosity about what was here before my time. Every once in a while, I’ll stumble across WHY IS URBAN PLANNING SO WHITE? By Saquib Ahsan, Ruth Belay, Abigail Moriah, and Gervais Nash The deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Abdirahman Abdi, Ejaz Choudry, and countless other tragedies have occurred in urban centres — the sites of contention, struggle, and symbolic diversity. Urban planning is the relatively silent field that shapes both our built environment and social/economic infrastructure. Created to TORONTO'S SQUIRRELS HAVE BECOME CARNIVOROUS Toronto’s squirrels have become carnivorous. On a trip to the Rogers Centre for a Blue Jays game last summer, Catia Brito caught sight of a large grey squirrel eating on a patch of green grass below the CN Tower. A native of Aracaju, Sergipe in Brazil now SUSAN GRIMBLY, AUTHOR AT SPACING TORONTO The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that BOOK REVIEW: SOFT CITY Courtesy of Gehl. Rather than a book you sit down and read, Soft City is a book that invites you to explore what it has to offer. It is highly visual, filled with primary colours, useful case studies, original ideas, inspiring photographs, and helpful graphics. As such, it is highly recommended that you forgo the e-book version and getyourself
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Carlton and Parliament By Matthew Blackett. I went shopping for Halloween candy at the drug store on Parliament when I lived in Cabbagetown. The guy in line in front of me, I SPACING | CANADIAN URBANISM UNCOVEREDTORONTOMAGAZINEPODCASTBOOKSGREENSPACEOTTAWA
Chinatown: Uncovering the future in the past, and the present in the future. By Linda Zhang. The new issue of Spacing includes an article by Paula Tran, “What will happen to Toronto’s Chinatown?”.SPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus.BOOK REVIEW
Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC Post-pandemic economic recovery requires strong public transit. The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a 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 City of Toronto jumped on the bandwagon by releasing its own “Slow Down” lawn signs, which it branded as its “Spring Safety Campaign.”The initiative was greeted with a certain amount ofTHE OLD NORTH END
A visit to Brunswick Street in 1966 – by Stephen Archibald. When I grew up in central Halifax in the 50s and 60s the residential portion of Brunswick St was foreign territory. Gottingen was a shopping and entertainment street but one street down, Brunswick was only useful as a short cut to the bridge. Anderson House. THE SOCKEYE SPECIAL: THE STORY OF THE STEVESTON TRAM AND As Hyde notes in the book, “the Sockeye Special was an integral part of the transportation, business and social life of Lulu Island.”. The Canadian Pacific Railway began the service on June 30, 1902 with two trains per day running between Vancouver and Steveston. While the line was created primarily to serve the canneries in Steveston, the PHOTO DU JOUR: AIGUISAGE TONY Photo du jour: Aiguisage Tony. August 23, 2008 | By Christopher DeWolf. I still find it amazing that there is a knife sharpener whodrives around
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Chinatown: Uncovering the future in the past, and the present in the future. By Linda Zhang. The new issue of Spacing includes an article by Paula Tran, “What will happen to Toronto’s Chinatown?”.SPACING TORONTO
History The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” By Susan Grimbly. As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus.BOOK REVIEW
Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC Post-pandemic economic recovery requires strong public transit. The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a THE TWO WORLDS OF MY ETOBICOKE The two worlds of my Etobicoke. My childhood was spent surrounded by the Humber River and grocery stores. I live in Rexdale, where there’s not much to do and every reason to leave. For the first decade of my life, north Etobicoke was my world. My family were immigrants who arrived in Toronto in 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 City of Toronto jumped on the bandwagon by releasing its own “Slow Down” lawn signs, which it branded as its “Spring Safety Campaign.”The initiative was greeted with a certain amount ofTHE OLD NORTH END
A visit to Brunswick Street in 1966 – by Stephen Archibald. When I grew up in central Halifax in the 50s and 60s the residential portion of Brunswick St was foreign territory. Gottingen was a shopping and entertainment street but one street down, Brunswick was only useful as a short cut to the bridge. Anderson House. PHOTO DU JOUR: AIGUISAGE TONY Photo du jour: Aiguisage Tony. August 23, 2008 | By Christopher DeWolf. I still find it amazing that there is a knife sharpener whodrives around
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History The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” By Susan Grimbly. As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived SHINING A LIGHT ON TORONTO'S STREETLAMPS 23 hours ago · Street lighting is an important, yet overlooked, part of any city’s standard infrastructure. For over seventy years, Toronto’s streets were lit with an elegant and increasingly unique streetlamp design. But modern standards and a desire for standardization will see this change, just as Toronto’s streetcars and street signs have. Starting in 1949, the City THE TRANZAC CLUB: “TORONTO’S LIVING ROOM” To me, the true draw, the action, is the music, because Tranzac has such a comfortable, drop-in kind of style. Where the Masonic Temple (once the Rock Pile) hosted bands you could lose your mind to, and the Colonial witnessed great jazz, the Tranzac was where the folkies clustered, like elves in a quiet cave. “For a long time, it was a real stronghold for folk, the classic form,” says REID: IS ACTIVETO ON LIFE SUPPORT? On a Sunday in the middle of May, I went for a bike ride along the south end of Bayview Ave., which was open to pedestrians and cyclists / closed to motor vehicles for the weekend as part of ActiveTO’s “Closing Major Roads” program.In a new expansion for 2021, the program extended all the way to Rosedale Valley Road, making it a more significant experience. SLEUTHING A GHOST SIGN ON RIVER STREET Ghost signs: The slowly fading hand-painted advertisements that cling to the sides of older buildings, redundantly promoting companies, products and services that disappeared long ago. I’ve been interested in them since I was a kid, because they trigger my curiosity about what was here before my time. Every once in a while, I’ll stumble across WHY IS URBAN PLANNING SO WHITE? By Saquib Ahsan, Ruth Belay, Abigail Moriah, and Gervais Nash The deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Abdirahman Abdi, Ejaz Choudry, and countless other tragedies have occurred in urban centres — the sites of contention, struggle, and symbolic diversity. Urban planning is the relatively silent field that shapes both our built environment and social/economic infrastructure. Created to TORONTO'S SQUIRRELS HAVE BECOME CARNIVOROUS Toronto’s squirrels have become carnivorous. On a trip to the Rogers Centre for a Blue Jays game last summer, Catia Brito caught sight of a large grey squirrel eating on a patch of green grass below the CN Tower. A native of Aracaju, Sergipe in Brazil now SUSAN GRIMBLY, AUTHOR AT SPACING TORONTO The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that BOOK REVIEW: SOFT CITY Courtesy of Gehl. Rather than a book you sit down and read, Soft City is a book that invites you to explore what it has to offer. It is highly visual, filled with primary colours, useful case studies, original ideas, inspiring photographs, and helpful graphics. As such, it is highly recommended that you forgo the e-book version and getyourself
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Carlton and Parliament By Matthew Blackett. I went shopping for Halloween candy at the drug store on Parliament when I lived in Cabbagetown. The guy in line in front of me, I SPACING | CANADIAN URBANISM UNCOVEREDTORONTOMAGAZINEPODCASTBOOKSGREENSPACEOTTAWA
Chinatown: Uncovering the future in the past, and the present in the future. By Linda Zhang. The new issue of Spacing includes an article by Paula Tran, “What will happen to Toronto’s Chinatown?”.SPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.CSPACING MONTREAL
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces SUSAN GRIMBLY, AUTHOR AT SPACING TORONTO 1 day ago · The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. SLEUTHING A GHOST SIGN ON RIVER STREET Recently, Toronto heritage and history advocate Adam Wynne messaged me to ask if I had any information about a ghost sign on the south side of 111 River Street in Toronto. This early 20th century residence is among a number of other dwellings currently under threat of demolition in the area. I wrote back that I had nothing on it.BOOK REVIEW
Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work MESLIN: IF A BILLBOARD FALLS IN A FOREST… PART 4 Exactly fifteen years ago this week, I received this short and uplifting e-mail from Toronto city staff: January 12, 2006 Hi Dave, We have researched these two and we have no records of any permits. I have issued a notice to the owner to either obtain a permit or remove the signs. I will OUR LADY OF THE HARBOUR The “lady of the harbour” referred to the Star of the Sea, a statue of the Virgin Mary that crowns the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, known colloquially as the Sailor’s Church. However, we did not learn of this until later, for none of the shopkeepers we surveyed in the Old Port that day knew who the elusive lady was. SPACING | CANADIAN URBANISM UNCOVEREDTORONTOMAGAZINEPODCASTBOOKSGREENSPACEOTTAWA
Chinatown: Uncovering the future in the past, and the present in the future. By Linda Zhang. The new issue of Spacing includes an article by Paula Tran, “What will happen to Toronto’s Chinatown?”.SPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.CSPACING MONTREAL
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces SUSAN GRIMBLY, AUTHOR AT SPACING TORONTO 1 day ago · The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. SLEUTHING A GHOST SIGN ON RIVER STREET Recently, Toronto heritage and history advocate Adam Wynne messaged me to ask if I had any information about a ghost sign on the south side of 111 River Street in Toronto. This early 20th century residence is among a number of other dwellings currently under threat of demolition in the area. I wrote back that I had nothing on it.BOOK REVIEW
Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work MESLIN: IF A BILLBOARD FALLS IN A FOREST… PART 4 Exactly fifteen years ago this week, I received this short and uplifting e-mail from Toronto city staff: January 12, 2006 Hi Dave, We have researched these two and we have no records of any permits. I have issued a notice to the owner to either obtain a permit or remove the signs. I will OUR LADY OF THE HARBOUR The “lady of the harbour” referred to the Star of the Sea, a statue of the Virgin Mary that crowns the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, known colloquially as the Sailor’s Church. However, we did not learn of this until later, for none of the shopkeepers we surveyed in the Old Port that day knew who the elusive lady was. THE TRANZAC CLUB: “TORONTO’S LIVING ROOM” 1 day ago · To me, the true draw, the action, is the music, because Tranzac has such a comfortable, drop-in kind of style. Where the Masonic Temple (once the Rock Pile) hosted bands you could lose your mind to, and the Colonial witnessed great jazz, the Tranzac was where the folkies clustered, like elves in a quiet cave. “For a long time, it was a real stronghold for folk, the classic form,” saysSPACING OTTAWA
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Ottawa Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces REID: IS ACTIVETO ON LIFE SUPPORT? On a Sunday in the middle of May, I went for a bike ride along the south end of Bayview Ave., which was open to pedestrians and cyclists / closed to motor vehicles for the weekend as part of ActiveTO’s “Closing Major Roads” program.In a new expansion for 2021, the program extended all the way to Rosedale Valley Road, making it a more significant experience. POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC Post-pandemic economic recovery requires strong public transit. The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a SUSAN GRIMBLY, AUTHOR AT SPACING TORONTO 1 day ago · The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that ON KWIKWETLEM TERRITORY, A NEW VISION FOR RIVERVIEW On Kwikwetlem territory, a new vision for Riverview. The Riverview Lands, on the slope above the Coquitlam River, were known as a storied place. Settlers will remember the area most for its mental health facility, which the province began work on in 1904. It had an extensive garden and was near the Colony Farm, where patient labourersonce
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An architectural graveyard By Matthew Blackett. In the eastern end of the city, along the shores of Lake Ontario, there is a geological wonder that stands tall and majestic. GREEN SPACE ARCHIVES Monday’s links to weekend articles By Matthew Blackett. This is the best photo of Toronto I have seen in a long time. It was posted in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool and is making the rounds SPACING | CANADIAN URBANISM UNCOVEREDTORONTOMAGAZINEPODCASTBOOKSGREENSPACEOTTAWA
Urban Design Toronto LORINC: Why Toronto’s urban design needs a lesson on climate and equity By John Lorinc. Many Torontonians, including critics, have long bemoaned the absence, at least in recent decades, of a unique architectural character for the city. THE TRANZAC CLUB: “TORONTO’S LIVING ROOM” 2 hours ago · To me, the true draw, the action, is the music, because Tranzac has such a comfortable, drop-in kind of style. Where the Masonic Temple (once the Rock Pile) hosted bands you could lose your mind to, and the Colonial witnessed great jazz, the Tranzac was where the folkies clustered, like elves in a quiet cave. “For a long time, it was a real stronghold for folk, the classic form,” saysSPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC Post-pandemic economic recovery requires strong public transit. The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a GARDENING WITH CHAYOTE/BUDDHA HAND MELON: A VERY VANCOUVER In small backyards, informally shared plots and community gardens, Vancouver gardeners know how to make the most of small growing spaces. We also take full advantage of having a milder climate and longer growing season than almost any other Canadian city. These particularities of urban form and climate inspire many Vancouver gardeners to pursue theTHE OLD NORTH END
A visit to Brunswick Street in 1966 – by Stephen Archibald. When I grew up in central Halifax in the 50s and 60s the residential portion of Brunswick St was foreign territory. Gottingen was a shopping and entertainment street but one street down, Brunswick was only useful as a short cut to the bridge. Anderson House. THE SOCKEYE SPECIAL: THE STORY OF THE STEVESTON TRAM AND As Hyde notes in the book, “the Sockeye Special was an integral part of the transportation, business and social life of Lulu Island.”. The Canadian Pacific Railway began the service on June 30, 1902 with two trains per day running between Vancouver and Steveston. While the line was created primarily to serve the canneries in Steveston, the PHOTO DU JOUR: AIGUISAGE TONY Photo du jour: Aiguisage Tony. August 23, 2008 | By Christopher DeWolf. I still find it amazing that there is a knife sharpener whodrives around
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Urban Design Toronto LORINC: Why Toronto’s urban design needs a lesson on climate and equity By John Lorinc. Many Torontonians, including critics, have long bemoaned the absence, at least in recent decades, of a unique architectural character for the city. THE TRANZAC CLUB: “TORONTO’S LIVING ROOM” 2 hours ago · To me, the true draw, the action, is the music, because Tranzac has such a comfortable, drop-in kind of style. Where the Masonic Temple (once the Rock Pile) hosted bands you could lose your mind to, and the Colonial witnessed great jazz, the Tranzac was where the folkies clustered, like elves in a quiet cave. “For a long time, it was a real stronghold for folk, the classic form,” saysSPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC Post-pandemic economic recovery requires strong public transit. The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a GARDENING WITH CHAYOTE/BUDDHA HAND MELON: A VERY VANCOUVER In small backyards, informally shared plots and community gardens, Vancouver gardeners know how to make the most of small growing spaces. We also take full advantage of having a milder climate and longer growing season than almost any other Canadian city. These particularities of urban form and climate inspire many Vancouver gardeners to pursue theTHE OLD NORTH END
A visit to Brunswick Street in 1966 – by Stephen Archibald. When I grew up in central Halifax in the 50s and 60s the residential portion of Brunswick St was foreign territory. Gottingen was a shopping and entertainment street but one street down, Brunswick was only useful as a short cut to the bridge. Anderson House. THE SOCKEYE SPECIAL: THE STORY OF THE STEVESTON TRAM AND As Hyde notes in the book, “the Sockeye Special was an integral part of the transportation, business and social life of Lulu Island.”. The Canadian Pacific Railway began the service on June 30, 1902 with two trains per day running between Vancouver and Steveston. While the line was created primarily to serve the canneries in Steveston, the PHOTO DU JOUR: AIGUISAGE TONY Photo du jour: Aiguisage Tony. August 23, 2008 | By Christopher DeWolf. I still find it amazing that there is a knife sharpener whodrives around
THE TRANZAC CLUB: “TORONTO’S LIVING ROOM” 2 hours ago · To me, the true draw, the action, is the music, because Tranzac has such a comfortable, drop-in kind of style. Where the Masonic Temple (once the Rock Pile) hosted bands you could lose your mind to, and the Colonial witnessed great jazz, the Tranzac was where the folkies clustered, like elves in a quiet cave. “For a long time, it was a real stronghold for folk, the classic form,” says REID: IS ACTIVETO ON LIFE SUPPORT? 1 day ago · On a Sunday in the middle of May, I went for a bike ride along the south end of Bayview Ave., which was open to pedestrians and cyclists / closed to motor vehicles for the weekend as part of ActiveTO’s “Closing Major Roads” program.In a new expansion for 2021, the program extended all the way to Rosedale Valley Road, making it a more significant experience. SLEUTHING A GHOST SIGN ON RIVER STREET Recently, Toronto heritage and history advocate Adam Wynne messaged me to ask if I had any information about a ghost sign on the south side of 111 River Street in Toronto. This early 20th century residence is among a number of other dwellings currently under threat of demolition in the area. I wrote back that I had nothing on it. SUSAN GRIMBLY, AUTHOR AT SPACING TORONTO 2 hours ago · The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues thatBOOK REVIEW
Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to well-known The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, North Americans spend roughly 85% of their time indoors.As such, we often take the spaces that structure our everyday lives for granted. BOOK REVIEW: SOFT CITY Rather than a book you sit down and read, Soft City is a book that invites you to explore what it has to offer. It is highly visual, filled with primary colours, useful case studies, original ideas, inspiring photographs, and helpful graphics. As such, it is highly recommended that you forgo the e-book version and get yourself aphysical copy.
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An architectural graveyard By Matthew Blackett. In the eastern end of the city, along the shores of Lake Ontario, there is a geological wonder that stands tall and majestic. GREEN SPACE ARCHIVES A bike-tastic vision for the waterfront By Tammy Thorne. Paris bike lane pic by Gadl Last week I attended the first public meeting for the Central Waterfront redesign. GREEN SPACE ARCHIVES Monday’s links to weekend articles By Matthew Blackett. This is the best photo of Toronto I have seen in a long time. It was posted in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool and is making the rounds RECLAIMING SPACES/PLACES: REVEALING A FORGOTTEN INDIGENOUS Reclaiming Spaces/Places is an ongoing series written by Lacey McRae Williams that shares stories of Indigenous resurgence through public art and planning across Canada, Turtle Island (North America).. I would like to introduce two themes that are continually a point of contention in my own mind that I feel need to be discussed more often, with more people and to a deeper degree: 1) the SPACING | CANADIAN URBANISM UNCOVEREDTORONTOMAGAZINEPODCASTBOOKSGREENSPACEOTTAWA
Urban Design Toronto LORINC: Why Toronto’s urban design needs a lesson on climate and equity By John Lorinc. Many Torontonians, including critics, have long bemoaned the absence, at least in recent decades, of a unique architectural character for the city.SPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.CSPACING MONTREAL
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. BOOK REVIEW: SOFT CITY POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a necessary part of any recovery plan. We will not make LOST VILLAGES: CLAIREVILLE Lost Villages: Claireville. November 9, 2011 | By Sean Marshall. Former residential building on Codlin Crescent, possibly an old toll house on the old Albion Plank Road. Today it serves as the office of a truck yard. Located in the northwest corner of the City of Torontosits the all-but-
THE SHELL OIL TOWER IS A LOST 1950S MASTERPIECE The Shell Oil Tower is a lost 1950s masterpiece. The Shell Oil Tower at Exhibition Place was one of the first buildings in Toronto to be made entirely of steel and glass when it opened in 1955. Image: Exhibition Place Archives, Manuscript group 5, File 610, Item 31. A little over 30 years ago this winter, one of Toronto’s earliestModern
OPENING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IN This guest post is by members of Transportation Equity Toronto, the organizers of the Mini Conference on Racial Equity and Active Transportation (bios at the end). Over 50% of Toronto’s population is racialized (and even more so in suburban areas), yet plans for improving the convenience and safety of active transportation (AT) — meaning human-powered transportation TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
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Urban Design Toronto LORINC: Why Toronto’s urban design needs a lesson on climate and equity By John Lorinc. Many Torontonians, including critics, have long bemoaned the absence, at least in recent decades, of a unique architectural character for the city.SPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.CSPACING MONTREAL
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. BOOK REVIEW: SOFT CITY POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a necessary part of any recovery plan. We will not make LOST VILLAGES: CLAIREVILLE Lost Villages: Claireville. November 9, 2011 | By Sean Marshall. Former residential building on Codlin Crescent, possibly an old toll house on the old Albion Plank Road. Today it serves as the office of a truck yard. Located in the northwest corner of the City of Torontosits the all-but-
THE SHELL OIL TOWER IS A LOST 1950S MASTERPIECE The Shell Oil Tower is a lost 1950s masterpiece. The Shell Oil Tower at Exhibition Place was one of the first buildings in Toronto to be made entirely of steel and glass when it opened in 1955. Image: Exhibition Place Archives, Manuscript group 5, File 610, Item 31. A little over 30 years ago this winter, one of Toronto’s earliestModern
OPENING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IN This guest post is by members of Transportation Equity Toronto, the organizers of the Mini Conference on Racial Equity and Active Transportation (bios at the end). Over 50% of Toronto’s population is racialized (and even more so in suburban areas), yet plans for improving the convenience and safety of active transportation (AT) — meaning human-powered transportation TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
REID: IS ACTIVETO ON LIFE SUPPORT? 1 day ago · On a Sunday in the middle of May, I went for a bike ride along the south end of Bayview Ave., which was open to pedestrians and cyclists / closed to motor vehicles for the weekend as part of ActiveTO’s “Closing Major Roads” program.In a new expansion for 2021, the program extended all the way to Rosedale Valley Road, making it a more significant experience.SPACING OTTAWA
The City in Sight Podcast: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change By Spacing Radio. Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a specialpodcast series.
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An architectural graveyard By Matthew Blackett. In the eastern end of the city, along the shores of Lake Ontario, there is a geological wonder that stands tall and majestic. MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for. GREEN SPACE ARCHIVES Monday’s links to weekend articles By Matthew Blackett. This is the best photo of Toronto I have seen in a long time. It was posted in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool and is making the rounds GREEN SPACE ARCHIVES A bike-tastic vision for the waterfront By Tammy Thorne. Paris bike lane pic by Gadl Last week I attended the first public meeting for the Central Waterfront redesign.BOOK REVIEW
Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work TORONTO'S SQUIRRELS HAVE BECOME CARNIVOROUS Toronto’s squirrels have become carnivorous. On a trip to the Rogers Centre for a Blue Jays game last summer, Catia Brito caught sight of a large grey squirrel eating on a patch of green grass below the CN Tower. A native of Aracaju, Sergipe in Brazil nowBOOK REVIEW
Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to well-known The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, North Americans spend roughly 85% of their time indoors. As such, we often take the spaces that structure TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
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Urban Design Toronto LORINC: Why Toronto’s urban design needs a lesson on climate and equity By John Lorinc. Many Torontonians, including critics, have long bemoaned the absence, at least in recent decades, of a unique architectural character for the city.SPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.CSPACING MONTREAL
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. BOOK REVIEW: SOFT CITY POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a necessary part of any recovery plan. We will not make LOST VILLAGES: CLAIREVILLE Lost Villages: Claireville. November 9, 2011 | By Sean Marshall. Former residential building on Codlin Crescent, possibly an old toll house on the old Albion Plank Road. Today it serves as the office of a truck yard. Located in the northwest corner of the City of Torontosits the all-but-
THE SHELL OIL TOWER IS A LOST 1950S MASTERPIECE The Shell Oil Tower is a lost 1950s masterpiece. The Shell Oil Tower at Exhibition Place was one of the first buildings in Toronto to be made entirely of steel and glass when it opened in 1955. Image: Exhibition Place Archives, Manuscript group 5, File 610, Item 31. A little over 30 years ago this winter, one of Toronto’s earliestModern
OPENING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IN This guest post is by members of Transportation Equity Toronto, the organizers of the Mini Conference on Racial Equity and Active Transportation (bios at the end). Over 50% of Toronto’s population is racialized (and even more so in suburban areas), yet plans for improving the convenience and safety of active transportation (AT) — meaning human-powered transportation TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
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Urban Design Toronto LORINC: Why Toronto’s urban design needs a lesson on climate and equity By John Lorinc. Many Torontonians, including critics, have long bemoaned the absence, at least in recent decades, of a unique architectural character for the city.SPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.CSPACING MONTREAL
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. BOOK REVIEW: SOFT CITY POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a necessary part of any recovery plan. We will not make LOST VILLAGES: CLAIREVILLE Lost Villages: Claireville. November 9, 2011 | By Sean Marshall. Former residential building on Codlin Crescent, possibly an old toll house on the old Albion Plank Road. Today it serves as the office of a truck yard. Located in the northwest corner of the City of Torontosits the all-but-
THE SHELL OIL TOWER IS A LOST 1950S MASTERPIECE The Shell Oil Tower is a lost 1950s masterpiece. The Shell Oil Tower at Exhibition Place was one of the first buildings in Toronto to be made entirely of steel and glass when it opened in 1955. Image: Exhibition Place Archives, Manuscript group 5, File 610, Item 31. A little over 30 years ago this winter, one of Toronto’s earliestModern
OPENING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IN This guest post is by members of Transportation Equity Toronto, the organizers of the Mini Conference on Racial Equity and Active Transportation (bios at the end). Over 50% of Toronto’s population is racialized (and even more so in suburban areas), yet plans for improving the convenience and safety of active transportation (AT) — meaning human-powered transportation TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
REID: IS ACTIVETO ON LIFE SUPPORT? 1 day ago · On a Sunday in the middle of May, I went for a bike ride along the south end of Bayview Ave., which was open to pedestrians and cyclists / closed to motor vehicles for the weekend as part of ActiveTO’s “Closing Major Roads” program.In a new expansion for 2021, the program extended all the way to Rosedale Valley Road, making it a more significant experience.SPACING OTTAWA
The City in Sight Podcast: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change By Spacing Radio. Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a specialpodcast series.
MAPPING INDIGENOUS HISTORY ON THE TTC Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school reminds us once again of the importance of recognizing Indigenous stories and history, and how much Canada has to atone for.SECTION ARCHIVES
An architectural graveyard By Matthew Blackett. In the eastern end of the city, along the shores of Lake Ontario, there is a geological wonder that stands tall and majestic.SECTION ARCHIVES
Hometown touchstones By Matthew Blackett. RACE = MORALITY. This was the line that began my eight-year relationship with a Toronto phone booth. I was 18 and had ducked into a GREEN SPACE ARCHIVES A bike-tastic vision for the waterfront By Tammy Thorne. Paris bike lane pic by Gadl Last week I attended the first public meeting for the Central Waterfront redesign.BOOK REVIEW
Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work TORONTO'S SQUIRRELS HAVE BECOME CARNIVOROUS Toronto’s squirrels have become carnivorous. On a trip to the Rogers Centre for a Blue Jays game last summer, Catia Brito caught sight of a large grey squirrel eating on a patch of green grass below the CN Tower. A native of Aracaju, Sergipe in Brazil nowBOOK REVIEW
Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to well-known The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, North Americans spend roughly 85% of their time indoors. As such, we often take the spaces that structure TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
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Urban Design Toronto LORINC: Why Toronto’s urban design needs a lesson on climate and equity By John Lorinc. Many Torontonians, including critics, have long bemoaned the absence, at least in recent decades, of a unique architectural character for the city.SPACING TORONTO
Culture Mapping Indigenous history on the TTC By Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. June has begun, marking the start of Indigenous History Month. The recent discovery of an unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children at a Kamloops, B.CSPACING MONTREAL
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces COVID-19 AND TTC RIDERSHIP: PUTTING THE PANDEMIC IN When riders do return, it will be to an improved transit network. While the pandemic had a deleterious effect on TTC ridership, as a workplace the TTC was a fairly safe place. As of early April, just 640, or about 4 per cent, of TTC employees had contracted COVID-19, and only one had died of the virus. BOOK REVIEW: SOFT CITY POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY REQUIRES STRONG PUBLIC The job losses and damage to many retail businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related mobility restrictions mean that Toronto and other cities face a steep climb to economic recovery when things finally get back to normal. Major funding for public transit agencies is a necessary part of any recovery plan. We will not make LOST VILLAGES: CLAIREVILLE Lost Villages: Claireville. November 9, 2011 | By Sean Marshall. Former residential building on Codlin Crescent, possibly an old toll house on the old Albion Plank Road. Today it serves as the office of a truck yard. Located in the northwest corner of the City of Torontosits the all-but-
THE SHELL OIL TOWER IS A LOST 1950S MASTERPIECE The Shell Oil Tower is a lost 1950s masterpiece. The Shell Oil Tower at Exhibition Place was one of the first buildings in Toronto to be made entirely of steel and glass when it opened in 1955. Image: Exhibition Place Archives, Manuscript group 5, File 610, Item 31. A little over 30 years ago this winter, one of Toronto’s earliestModern
OPENING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IN This guest post is by members of Transportation Equity Toronto, the organizers of the Mini Conference on Racial Equity and Active Transportation (bios at the end). Over 50% of Toronto’s population is racialized (and even more so in suburban areas), yet plans for improving the convenience and safety of active transportation (AT) — meaning human-powered transportation TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
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THE SHELL OIL TOWER IS A LOST 1950S MASTERPIECE The Shell Oil Tower is a lost 1950s masterpiece. The Shell Oil Tower at Exhibition Place was one of the first buildings in Toronto to be made entirely of steel and glass when it opened in 1955. Image: Exhibition Place Archives, Manuscript group 5, File 610, Item 31. A little over 30 years ago this winter, one of Toronto’s earliestModern
OPENING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IN This guest post is by members of Transportation Equity Toronto, the organizers of the Mini Conference on Racial Equity and Active Transportation (bios at the end). Over 50% of Toronto’s population is racialized (and even more so in suburban areas), yet plans for improving the convenience and safety of active transportation (AT) — meaning human-powered transportation TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
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Author: Matthew Soules (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city: a city where policy and the market work TORONTO'S SQUIRRELS HAVE BECOME CARNIVOROUS Toronto’s squirrels have become carnivorous. On a trip to the Rogers Centre for a Blue Jays game last summer, Catia Brito caught sight of a large grey squirrel eating on a patch of green grass below the CN Tower. A native of Aracaju, Sergipe in Brazil nowBOOK REVIEW
Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to well-known The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, North Americans spend roughly 85% of their time indoors. As such, we often take the spaces that structure TORONTO'S HISTORY IN PHONE NUMBERS Toronto’s history in phone numbers. When I was growing up in the Toronto suburb of Willowdale, the community where “Downtown North York” is located, almost all of my friends had phone numbers that started with 22 (as in 226-2174, the home number of my youth, now in use by a real estate agency). My father explained to me, at the tenderage
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