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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Shawn Micallef

  • New geographic eReader called nomad from Spacing editor Shawn Micallef looking for your support

    Have you ever read a book set in real-life places and then looked at, say, Google Earth or Streetview to see where the story and action takes place? If...

  • A Street With a View in Pittsburgh

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDGyRO6w2o[/youtube] As Google Street View spreads from city to  city, it’s inevitable that people will try...

  • Welcome Back America — November 4th Celebration

    Oct 29 Update: There are 557 people signed up on the Facebook page, many from Toronto, but there are growing Montreal numbers. If you’re on board...

  • Seen in Montreal

    In the washroom of the cafe where we held our Spacing Montreal anniversary party on Sunday, I found this statement scrawled on the chalkboard wall. We...

  • TIFF goes to Montreal

    I was content to let the Toronto International Film Festival pass by without any personal involvement — even riding out my way around Yorkville to...

  • Cities at night from space

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEiy4zepuVE[/youtube] A neat video showing photographs of cities from space with a resolution and quality not seen...

  • Detroit 1965

    The above video was made as part of Detroit’s bid to host the Olympics, and if you have 18 minutes to spare, it’s worth a look. While certainly a period...

  • Deer hunting in Sudbury

    Two weeks ago I spent Good Friday afternoon walking around the fine and solid City of Sudbury. Because it was a holiday the city felt silent and empty...

  • Montreal in Dublin

    IRELAND: A day trip to Dublin reveals many fine things but none finer than this bus with a Montreal advertisement seen yesterday moving up the...

  • Poor NOLA: The violent struggle to rebuild a great city

    On his blog yesterday Richard Florida posted “Shades of Robert Moses” and asked “So you thought urban renewal and the destruction of...

  • A day in the life of 1975 New York City

    [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=C-3wza6rnck[/youtube] Despite the wave of happy-urbanism that has gripped Canadian cities over the past few years, one...

  • Armchair flâneur: Google Street View

    Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...