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Monthly Archives: September 2005

  • Spacing at Word on the Street

    Sunday Septemtber 25, 2005 • 11am-6pm Spacing will take part in our second Word On The Street event. We are very excited to be able to meet such a...

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  • Keeping Segways off sidewalks

    Following a resolution by the Toronto Pedestrian Committee in April against allowing Segway scooters on sidewalks, the local distributor started a...

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  • Who’s Driving the City?

    While London is installing solar powered lighting in its busstops and New York is putting thousands of new bus shelters, newsstands and, public washrooms...

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  • The Health Impacts of Sprawl

    Our friends at the Ontario Smart Growth Network present a great little event that connects urban sprawl with the increasing obesity of North American...

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  • Today is CarFree Day

    Without the financial support of City Hall, Torontonians are holding their own Car Free Day. Thursday, September 22nd is World CarFree Day and...

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  • SPACING EVENT: City Club of Toronto?

    The City Club of Toronto? Ideas and Experiences from Portland Spacing invites you out to an event we are helping promote. Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005 &bull...

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  • Bumvertising

    I was up the other night watching the Daily Show when they did a report on Bumvertising. Benjamin Rogovy, a 22-year-old “entrepreneur”, as...

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  • Viacom’s breaking all the rules

    The Toronto Public Space Committee has researched the contract that Viacom has with the City of Toronto for ads on transit shelters and has found that...

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  • Adding insult to injury

    It’s not enough that the City has allowed Astral Media to put up massive billboards in our parks disguised as bogus “information...

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  • Patchwork soccer

    Spacing‘s “Work and Play” issue discussed the importance of play in public space, both as a way of asserting public use of space, and as...

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  • Pedestrian posters

    The City of Toronto recently launched a new set of posters aimed at making drivers more aware of pedestrians. The posters feature cars being damaged when...

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  • How the streets get cleaned

    It’s easy to forget how much work it takes to keep our public spaces clean. This weekend, the Globe and Mail featured a great story in its weekend...

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