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Monthly Archives: July 2006

  • Useful billboards

    Ad creep is an obivous concern for us folks at Spacing, but there are instances when some good can come from it. Take the California community of...

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  • Mis-Guided

    Mis-Guide is a book and website created by Wrights & Sites, a group of four UK based artists. Mis-Guide is a guide book that can be used in any city...

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  • BBC Radio: “Making Cities Work”

    BBC World Service radio has an interesting series called “Making Cities Work“, available for listening in streaming or downloadable formats...

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  • A Walk in the Park

    David Gallaugher, a student at the Dalhousie School of Architecture in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has created a grass-lined wheel to simulate an eternal lawn...

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  • Chicagoland II

    We’re done with Chicago as of this morning. It was nice, and we’ll go back. If you go, and you only have one thing to do, take a tour with the...

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  • …the 77B on the TTC!

    Two weeks ago we posted the “Romantic Traffic” video by the Spoons that was filmed on the TTC subway lines. Today, we found “The Spadina...

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  • Final Month of Transmedia :29:59

    July is the final month of art content curated by Michelle Kasprzak and Michael Alstad on the pedestrian-level billboard in Dundas Square. The end of the...

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  • Italy!

    The above photo was taken at the corner of St. Clair and Dufferin around midnight the day Italy advanced to the World Cup final. I can only imagine how...

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  • Collection of articles

    NOW has a few good stories in their current issue. 1. Street furniture debate at City Hall “It’s too early to say whether the forthcoming...

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  • The dirt on graffiti

    Is it still graffiti if all you’re doing is cleaning away dirt? Street artist Paul Curtis (aka Moose) has been messing with the minds of city...

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  • More Parks, Less Parking

    This is a picture of me, lounging on the sod of the newest park in town. It says, “Streets are for People” just above the windshield. This...

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  • Chicagoland

    We arrived in Chicago on Wednesday. Apart from everything being remarkable, big and American, they call the whole thing, suburbs and all, Chicagoland...

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