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Toronto Tuesday: Psychological boundaries, pedestrian mapping and public hydro art

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Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities.

This week’s posts relate to the experience of space:

(Psycho)geographic boundaries and cozy urbanism
Shawn Micallef talks about the psychological boundaries that exist around the places we inhabit. Our “city blinders” are loaded with prescriptions of our city, our neighbourhoods and the spaces we don’t interact with. How well do you have to know a city’s geography before it becomes “your city”?

Experiments with creating walking maps
Dylan Reid explores the pedestrian experience in a mapping project in the St. Jamestown neighbourhood, and in a conference celebrating the art of (and about) sidewalk traffic. Maybe the nature of our pedestrian travels are a little more complicated than we notice.

Sidewalk graffiti, hydro-style
Check out Hydro Toronto’s unintentional claim to fame as sidewalk graffiti artists. Hydro Toronto deployed their outdoor workforce to check all the city’s sidewalk covers, after decaying wires made contact with the covers to severely shock passersby. In the process, the safe sidewalk covers were painted red (to apparently give Roadsworth a run for his money.)

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