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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Shawn Micallef

  • Bali: Canada, Climate Change, Harper and You

    With the release of the Spacing “Green” issue, we have faith that many solutions to the widely-acknowledged-climate-crisis will come at the...

  • Phantom Shanghai

    Click over to CBC.ca – Arts where photographer Greg Girard narrates a neat slide show of pictures from his book Phantom Shanghai. The book looks at...

  • CCTV Fashion Police

    In much of Canada, the introduction of CCTV by police to monitor public space is still in its infancy, passionately supported in some quarters, denounced...

  • Voice of the Tube fired

    With the recent introduction of the pleasant automated voice announcing TTC stops in Toronto, it is interesting to read that the voice actor behind the...

  • Where NYC manhole covers come from

    Yesterday’s New York Times had a piece (and a neat audio slide show) on the the origin of that city’s manhole covers. Foreign worker safety is...

  • CFC Media Lab Info Soirée

    CFC Media Lab in Toronto — the place where we developed [murmure] — is holding an information session in Montreal tomorrow. In fact, at a...

  • Road to Nowhere: Bike Riding in New York

    Video Urban thinker, former Talking Head, and writer of songs about architecture and buildings David Byrne recently did a presentation called “How...

  • The 1970 Architectural Concept

    Ed: This piece by Spacing’s Ottawa/Gatineau Region correspondent Amber Yared is cross posted from SpacingToronto and continues the investigation...