We know the trend towards celebrating the city (for which Spacing can perhaps take some credit) is doing well when Dose, CanWest’s free daily, jumps on the bandwagon. For its recent Friday/weekend edition on “The Two Sides of the Street: what you have to say about the good and bad of urban living” (Jan. 13-15) it seems to have gone straight to the latest issue of Spacing for material. The page 3 “Weekend Guide to Urban Environments” highlighted our friends at infiltration (accompanied by the pic from Sam Javanrouh’s topleftpixel that Spacing had already featured on page 3 of our most recent issue), and the Kensington Market Bass, also featured in our most recent issue. Dose should also get credit for highlighting Jane Jacob’s classic “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” to their youthful target audience, even if they got the title slightly wrong.
Inside, they lifted the idea of a feature on renters talking about their places from Eye magazine’s “My Apartment” feature, now written by Spacing‘s very own Dale Duncan. But they also had quite good little features on issues such as municipal funding, featuring extended discussions by Canadian mayors, and homelessness, with good insight from people who work on the front lines of the issue. It’s good to see the message is spreading.