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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
By Julie Fish -
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
By Julie Fish -
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...
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Cycling Think & Do Tank: Women and Cycling in Toronto — A Snapshot
This post by Trudy Ledsham is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out more about...
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Sitting by the fire: artists redesign campsites
This group of artists might just make the old tuna can camper cool again. UrbanCampsite Amsterdam provides a fun redesign of classic concepts, built to...
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Carleton Village
Urban Decay, Toronto / By Vik Pahwa Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
Hug a tree, it might just be saving your life
A new study from the U.S. Forest Service says that “urban forests” could save your life. The study shows “large-scale” correlation...
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Wall Art
Bike wall, Downtown Toronto / By Gary Baker Contribute your photos to Spacing’s Flickr pool
By Julie Fish -
Book Review – Courtyards: Aesthetic, Social, and Thermal Delight
Author: John S. Reynolds (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001) Courtyards: Aesthetic, Social, and Thermal Delight was a different book for me, and I say...
By Jeremy Senko
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered