Autumn is upon us, and with it the fall leaf colours that epitomize the season. It is said that the dry summer will dull the foliage this year, but that's no excuse to stay indoors. Elliott Katz's book, Great Country Walks Around Toronto, is packed with hikes of varying lengths in all areas of the city. One of the walks follows the Cedarvale Ravine. This easy 2.5 km walk over paved and packed-dirt trails......

The Spadina Expressway was probably the most high-profile megaproject in Toronto that was never built, but it's also just one of many. For his OCAD thesis project, David Kopulos has detailed a host of construction projects that were planned for Toronto, but that never materialized—both the reviled (such as the Expressway) and the intriguing—on his website, Toronto Pending. Each entry explains what the proposed structure would have been and why it wasn't built, alongside......

Toronto isn't New York, anyone can tell you that. But like New York and other big cities, Toronto has an addiction to the automobile. The city has avoided major disasters like the Spadina Expressway and downtown ghettoes, but slow-burning issues like smog and congestion means that the city has to find a way to wean itself off its dependence on cars. Contested Streets: Breaking New York City's Gridlock is a film that premiered earlier......

Is this what the Annex could've looked like? The above rendering is what the vibrant corner of Bloor and Spadina would've looked like if the Spadina Expressway had been built and just one example of how close this city came to making one of its largest planning blunders. Tomorrow night Spacing Magazine pays tribute to the people who helped stop the highway, and just how Toronto has been shaped and continues to be shaped......

It is with great sadness that Torontoist reports the death of Torontonian Jane Jacobs. The 89-year old writer and urban critic passed away this morning. Most famous for her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs had been a resident of Toronto since 1968, immediately became involved in important city activism, she was instrumental in the "Stop the Spadina Expressway" campaign (we got the Spadina subway line instead), and she supported......