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Gerstein Science Information Centre
Frosted windows, fluorescent lights. Gerstein Science Information Centre, U of T, Toronto / By Vik Pahwa Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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From urban billboard to affordable housing
In Canadian cities, mammoth-like, urban advertising billboards are a common fixture. However, they are as well in Belgium. We know, because a Belgian...
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“Points”: The most advanced sign on earth
What if street signs knew where we wanted to go? What if they could even point us in the right direction? Brooklyn-based design agency, BREAKFAST, has...
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Book Review – Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture
Authors: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) The world of design is seemingly growing on a daily basis to...
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Cities find new ways to use old infrastructure
What if your local telephone booth was also an electric vehicle charging station? Or construction scaffolding became a fun place to sit down and eat...
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Interesting maps. Historical maps. BIG maps.
Introducing the BIG Map Blog. The curator (known only as the 59 kind) of the collection/blog, is an enthusiast of cartography and geographic information...
By Stephen Brophy -
Visual Thoughts #31
Last VT image: Building projection, Nob Hill, San Francisco. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
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New Merch Day 3: Winnipeg architecture buttons
Spacing has always used our merchandise as an important fundraising tool for the magazine — it helps to keep our ad content low, and editorial content...
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Kensington Market
A pedestrian reading in front of a store in Kensington, Toronto / By Jonathan Castellino Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
Futuristic Skytran mass transit soon to be in Tel Aviv
Described by its developers as ‘the jetsons made into real life’, this innovative new system of personal rapid transit, designed by NASA and...
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Cycling Think & Do Tank: Vienna & Berlin — A Tale of Two (Cycling) Cities
This post by Beth Savan, the Principal Investigator of the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank & is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Think and...
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New Merch Day 2: Toronto neighbourhood maps
Spacing has always used our merchandise as an important fundraising tool for the magazine — it helps to keep our ad content low, and editorial content...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered