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Urban Planet: Artists bake up gingerbread replicas of renowned galleries
There’s nothing cookie-cutter about architectural landmarks such as Tate Modern, the Louvre, or the Guggenheim Museum – even in gingerbread form...
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10 (+1) Alternative Toronto Reads
Kenk: A Graphic Portrait (Richard Poplak & Nick Marinkovich) A biography in comic book form tracing the life and career of Toronto’s most notorious...
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St. Clair and Warden
Cracked concrete underpass at St. Clair Ave. E. and Warden Ave., Toronto / photo by Vik Pahwa Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Urban Planet: This might be the world’s easiest-to-assemble bicycle
The Sandwichbike can make a bicycle mechanic out of anyone. Made up of less than 50 parts, the bike comes shipped ready-to-assemble, and the manufacturer...
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Spacing Store Black Friday sale
As we’re getting ready for the holidays and the launch of our 10th anniversary issue, we want to give a deal for all the early bird shoppers our...
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Smaller city revitalization — the case of Fredericton’s Main Street
A version of this article by Hassan Arif appeared recently in Sustainable Cities Collective. Fredericton is a smaller city, with a population of...
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Book Review – Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Intensities
Authors: Paul Lewis , Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013) LTL are back with a new collection of their architectural...
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Urban Planet: James Murphy’s vision for musical subway stations
If James Murphy had it his way, subway station turnstiles would be musical instruments in their own right, and the commuters themselves musicians. By...
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Richmond Street
JaBistro, Richmond Street, Toronto / photo by Dominic Bugatto Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Toronto Island Picnic Tables
Picnic tables on Toronto Island / photo by Vik Pahwa Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Urban Planet: Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam
Amsterdam may be seen as a cyclist’s utopia today, but it wasn’t always so. Around the midway point of the century, the Dutch were building their...
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Book Review – Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb
Author: June Williamson (Island Press, 2013) Designing Suburban Futures is a book based on a competition held in 2010 that saw design entries from around...
By Jeremy Senko
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered