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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...
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Giant Island Press eBook sale on urbanism titles – $4.99, until Aug. 5th
Island Press is celebrating the summer with a giant eBook sale. This special sale includes more than 500 titles from three decades of publishing the best...
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Converting Alleyways to Livable Laneways and Country Lanes
As a kid growing up in Vancouver, I spent a lot of time playing with neighbourhood kids in the alleyway outside our family home off Cambie Street. Most...
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New Merchandise: Hand-drawn Toronto postcard sets
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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Trenton Terrace, laneway housing in Parkdale
Each Friday, we present Spacing Films — short docs based on articles that have previously appeared in Spacing magazine. The first four films will focus...
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Dundas and Yonge
Cabs at Dundas and Yonge, Toronto / By Freaktography Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Visualizing Portland’s age in seductive, coloured maps
A brilliant map created by Portland resident, Justin Palmer, shows the colour-coded ages of 544,033 buildings in the Portland metro area of Oregon. The...
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King Street
King Street from Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto / By Jae Yang Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Dutch streets that eat urban air pollution
To maintain the theme of appreciating innovative dutch city building after last week’s post, we are continuing with another idea-import from the...
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Book Review – Reconnecting Cultures: The Architecture of Rocco Design
Author: Maki Fumihiko and Rocco Yim (Artifice, 2012) I have to get it off my chest before delving into this article: every time I this book it out of the...
By Jeremy Senko
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered