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Umbrella-canopy created over a Portugese street
The city of Agueda, Portugal has, for a second time, decorated a handful of popular shopping streets with colorful canopies of umbrellas. The installation...
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St. Michael’s Cemetery
Starting this week, we present Spacing Films — short films based on articles that have previously appeared in Spacing magazine. The first four films will...
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Cycling Think & Do Tank: How to Love, Not Fear, Your First Ride — A Lesson from a New Cyclist
This post by Benvenuto Triolo is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out more...
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CN Pedestrian Underpass
Pedestrian underpass, Toronto / By Vik Pahwa Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Dutch highways will soon glow in the dark
Daan Roosegaarde, from Studio Roosegaarde in the Netherlands, has been busy in the past year unveiling new smart-road infrastructure that, believe it or...
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Breather: unlocking private urban spaces
Our cities are enormous labyrinths of private and public spaces. Yet, within that enormity, most of those spaces are inaccessible. However, thanks to a...
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One Thousand Speculations
Michel de Broin’s giant mirror ball in front of the RBC building on Wellington Street / By BruceK Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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The Urban Observatory: learning by comparison
The Urban Observatory is a city comparison app that enables you to explore the living fabric of global cities by browsing a variety of themes while...
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Exploring evolution of bike infrastructure in Toronto and Montreal
Both Toronto and Montreal have made progress towards creating a connected network of bike lanes, yet each has taken a different approach. In the 1980s...
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Visual Thoughts #30
Last VT image: Robert Dollar’s cedar mill foundation ruins, North Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing...
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Union Station
Monument to multiculturalism outside Union Station, Toronto / By BruceK Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
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Book Review: -arium: Weather and Architecture
Edited by Jürgen Mayer-Hermann & Neeraj Bhatia (Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2009) With its the everyday presence and seemingly predictable nature, weather...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered