May 18th, 2012
People have jobs. The "slum" we discussed last week has begun to come around and seemingly, it was an easy fix. This particular neighborhood had a couple bus stops, usually with only a 30% usage. But after noticing a few empty corners with no bus shelters or transit, we added a few more. That worked. Within a couple sim days the no jobs logos disapeared and transit boosted its use to something we now don't know how to handle.
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Hi Spacing readers. I'm pleased to announced that while continuing write and edit Spacing things, I've just started a new weekly column over at the Toronto Star exploring how and where we live in the GTA. I'll wander from downtown to wherever the farm fields start (and maybe, once in a while, hang out there too). The first one went up today, looking at Mississauga City Centre. Thanks for coming along for the walk all these years.
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Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.
Booooooom.com has a great collection of unique and colourful Japanese manhole covers.
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Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist
Jerry Waese.
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FORD and PFLAG
• Levy: Proud that Mayor Ford was at flag-raising ceremony [The Sun]
• The faces of the PFLAG ceremony [OpenFile]
• Surprise! Mayor Rob Ford appears at gay event [The Star]
• Rob Ford cheered as he makes surprise appearance at LGBT event [National Post]
CITY HALL
• Environmental advocate chastises council’s record [The Sun]
• Toronto gets good credit report from Moody’s [The Sun]
TRANSIT
• Is the TTC’s expansion plan absurdly expensive? Depends on who you ask [Open File]
• TTC driver faces careless driving charges after nine passengers sent to hospital [National Post]
G20
• Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair must own up to G20 mistakes or step down [The Star]
• Toronto police officers face charges over G20 misconduct [National Post]
• High-ranking and frontline Toronto police officers face charges [The Star]
CASINO
• OLG takes first step in major gambling expansion [CBC]
• OLG eyes 29 "gaming zones" across Ontario [The Sun]
• Vaughan accuses OLG of “throwing darts at a map” [The Sun]
OTHER NEWS
• This canary sings a pretty tune for Toronto [Globe & Mail]
• Lastman Square: A campus quad in the making? [The Star]
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May 17th, 2012
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.
If you've dreamed of living in LEGO paradise since you were a child, Dwell has the home for you. In partnership with Pacific Standard Time, the magazine launched a challenge to architects and lego-tects alike to construct a model of an original home inspired by Californian mid-century modern architecture using only using LEGO bricks. The results are well worth checking out.
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WHAT: All of Spacing's heritage-style t-shirt on sale
WHEN: Monday until Sunday (May 14-20, 2012)
WHERE: on Spacing's e-store
COST: $22 (usually $30) with promo code and includes shipping
We've been having another stretch of great weather and that's put us in the mood for another t-shirt sale! Each of our town heritage shirts display the coat of arms or corporate seal of former towns and villages that have been absorbed into the city of Toronto.
All week, Spacing is offering a special discount on our Toronto Town heritage t-shirts. You can pick up on for East York, The Junction, and Etobicoke!
Usually, our t-shirts run for $30 each, but we're slashing prices this week: only $22! The Spacing e-store is the only place this t-shirt is available, so we encourage you to act now.
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FORD
• A betting man [Torontoist]
CITY HALL
• Metro Hall sale won’t net City much: Report [The Sun]
TRANSIT
• Bike plan blazes trails instead of lanes [NOW]
• Gardiner Expressway work will cause years of traffic chaos [The Star]
• Plan to tear down the Gardiner has died [The Sun]
G20
• Blair not yet ready to act on OIPRD G20 findings [The Sun]
• Five key findings of the G20 watchdog report on G20 summit in Toronto [National Post]
• Chief Blair reacts to scathing police watchdog report on G20 police conduct [The Star]
REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
• Brampton may be ready to play ball—in a new baseball-cricket stadium [The Star]
OTHER NEWS
• Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival aims to avoid clichés [National Post]
• Pride funding in peril as Queers Against Israeli Apartheid plans to march [Globe & Mail]
• How Toronto is failing when it comes to food access [OpenFile]
• Porter: We should adapt Seattle’s neighbourhood matching grants to Toronto [The Star]
• Strike helped Toronto Public Library’s books [The Sun]
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May 16th, 2012
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world.
It's been in international headlines throughout the past few weeks over false reports that it will be changing its name, but this tiny Austrian hamlet has been "Fucking" (or close to it) since the Dark Ages.
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Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex's personal blog on architecture
In my roundup of shows at the Contact festival, I somehow missed the latest exhibition by Michael Awad at Nicholas Metivier. An architect and artist, Awad has been at work for years on his Entire City Project - an encyclopedic take on Toronto's streets, public buildings and infrastructure. His show closes Saturday, May 19.
There's another Awad event of interest on Friday: Photo + Design, a symposium at the Design Exchange that brings together Awad with three other notable photographers, Peter MacCallum, Montreal's Marc Cramer and Vancouver's Nic Lehoux, and the wonderful Toronto-New York architecture photographer Ben Rahn. They'll talk about their work and share "their unique perspectives on architecture and design."
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