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A 72 Year Crossing at Yonge and Bloor

"A 72 Year Crossing at Yonge and Bloor" Comparative...

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STREET SCENE: Linux Cafe

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Farm Friday: Evergreen Brick Works

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SPACING VOTES WEEKLY: Coach Ford, Smitherman walks & a heated TV debate

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SPACING RADIO: Smitherman talks walking, while walking

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IDEAS FOR TORONTO: Infrastructure referendums

The Toronto City Summit Alliance held a roundtable...

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Bike parking takes over car parking spaces

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Cities for People — New Toronto design intervention

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LORINC: Greenwashing by any other name

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World Wide Wednesday: Maps, Trains, Trikes and Three Million on the A40

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Thursday’s headlines

DEVELOPMENT
Battle erupts over future of Yonge and Eglinton [ National Post ]
A planner's secret weapon? [ Eye ]

TRANSIT
Mississauga council gives green light to bus line [ National Post ]
TTC booth robberies prompt more patrols [ Toronto Star ]

ARCHITECTURE
Prefab modernist studios in Toronto's back alleys? [ National Post ]
Urban Leafs [ Eye ]

OTHER NEWS
Artists drawn down QEW [ Toronto Star ]
Toronto is all in your head [ Eye ]
On being homeless in Toronto in winter [ National Post ]
Front Street Extension: R.I.P. [ Eye ]
McGuinty asked for ideas, now courage is called for [ Globe & Mail ]
An unbeleafable tree policy [ Toronto Sun ]

 

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Toronto is not Gravenhurst. A 40 storey cap at one of the city's biggest transit nodes, in a neighbourhood that supports office, residential and retail? What a joke. Keep North Toronto's humble commercial streetscape and gentle, leafy side streets but leave Y&E free to become the best urban whatever that it wants to be. 70 storeys might not be enough.

The only problem with Minto is that it is too short.

Comment by uSkyscraper
February 5, 2009 | 9:51 am

It's a shame to see artists leave T.O.(as I'm one) but sometimes living expenses takes presidence over life style choices.

ONe can continue to make great art somewhere else, and come into the city to sell it. Nothing wrong with that. With even less distractions and expenses mind you!

Bravo people.

I'm with uSkyscraper: the proposed cap is silly. Why is the status quo always sacrosanct in Toronto?

Comment by Mike W.
February 5, 2009 | 2:02 pm

A few years ago I predicted that the art scene might migrate to Hamilton.

Guess I was right.

yeah, seriously, what is the theoretical harm caused by a super-tall bldg at Y&E?

 
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