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Monthly Archives: December 2005

  • BMX park along the waterfont?

    Tomorrow evening (Wednesday, December 14) Councillor Sylvia Watson is holding a community meeting to discuss the idea of building a BMX course at Marilyn...

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  • Vanity Fair and Toronto

    Looks like Vanity Fair has a thing for Toronto. On VanityFair.com, Tepper Anderson visits our fair city and discovers the vibrancy of Toronto’s...

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  • Is Toronto ready to grow up?

    (all links go to the Toronto Star) Is Toronto ready to grow up? Christopher Hume ponders this qestion in his column today regarding the potential overhaul...

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  • Development developments

    Today the Ontario government proposed new legislation that would give councils and citizens more power to determine what developments go ahead, and...

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  • Hybrid taxis in NYC

    On November 10, 2005 the first hybrid taxi fleet was launched in New York City. The vehicle runs on a combination of gas and electricity and generally...

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  • The posters of climate change

    Yvonne Bambrick, one of the organizers behind Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, sent along a photo of some of the street art that lined the streets...

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  • Subverting graffiti

    Christopher Hutsul has an interesting piece in the Toronto Star today about a Sony graffiti promotion in NYC and San Francisco: Graffiti purists are...

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  • The Art of Psychogeography

    The Ideas section of today’s Toronto Star has a feature on psychogeography. The article notes a growing interest in psychogeography among artists...

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  • Countryside Shelter

    Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef is in Europe during December and is posting sporadically throughout the month. — The Editors There was a...

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  • GIFT GUIDE: Spacing’s 4-issue Gift Pack

    Spacing is happy to announce a special holiday promotion: the Spacing 4-issue Gift Pack. To save you time, we have conveniently wrapped all of our...

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  • Sprawl Malta Euro Mega-Remix

    Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef is in Europe during December and is posting sporadically throughout the month. — The Editors Just to add to...

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  • Union Station Precinct

    The City of Toronto is planning to revamp the precinct around Union Station — one of the most central and busy but also most neglected parts of...

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