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Spacing

Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Matthew Blackett

  • A prescription for congestion?

    Nobody likes a traffic jam. Cities around the world have struggled to alleviate gridlock, with varying degrees of success. London, England and Stockholm...

  • Rambling the length of Queen Street

    In anticipation of the Walk 21 conference on all things pedestrian, Spacing organized the Great Queen Street Psychogeographic Walk. We began at the Queen...

  • The Humber’s coolest restroom

    The bike and pedestrian trails at the mouth of the Humber River tour through a varied landscape. One minute the riverside paths will take you under an...

  • Tree pit liberation

    In the middle of the summer, at the corner of Oxford and Spadina (on the east side of Kensington Market) the community group Streets Are For People (SAFP...

  • Hawkeye for the pest guy

    George Costanza on the TV show Seinfeld has a deal with the pigeons: they get out of his way, he looks the other way on statue defecation. Torontonians...

  • We’d love to turn you on

    I know a two-year-old who recently took advantage of her grandfather's nap to colour his pants and the couch he was sleeping on in crayon rainbows. He...

  • Your meter is up

    For many, a car can represent a certain degree of freedom — a license to go where you want, when you want, without having to worry about bus...

  • Hogging the road

    I know that cars are sometimes useful because I don't drive. Most of the time, I have no need to — I live in a densely populated part of the...

  • From the other side of the wheel

    I come from a long line of non-drivers. Getting my license was not something I eagerly awaited as a teenager, and whenever I considered getting it after...

  • The animals among us

    I knew our relationship was in trouble when she threw herself at my closed window, twice in a row. To this hungry and observant grey squirrel, the one...