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By Dylan Reid

  • Watch the Fourth Plinth

    A couple of months ago I wrote about the upcoming “One and Other” project for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, England. The...

  • All aboard the Committee of Adjustment

    The City of Toronto Committee of Adjustment is one of those obscure appointed boards that actually has a big impact on the city. It decides whether...

  • Detroit: Street Infrastructure

    Detroit has some nice street elements and infrastructure left over from its glory days, much of it worn by time, and also little pockets of innovative new...

  • Detroit: Graffiti

    Detroit must be some kind of graffiti artist heaven — there are almost endless amounts of deserted, empty walls across the city in neglected streets...

  • Dept. of Funny Signs: Lovable

    This ghost sign is one of my favourites of all time. It’s on the east side of a building near the south-east corner of Adelaide and Portland —...

  • A day at Works Committee

    It’s been a while since I sat in on the City of Toronto Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, but I went there last Tuesday to depute in favour...

  • Spacing on TV: Copenhagen and sharing the road

    Spacing publisher Matt Blackett talked to copenhagenize.com‘s Colville Andersen while visiting Copenhagen last week. Matt talks about the Danish...

  • Event Guide: Danish urbanist Jan Gehl coming to Toronto

    Danish architect Jan Gehl is one of the world’s foremost experts on transforming public spaces and creating walking-friendly environments. He led...

  • French fun with protests

    The French are renowned or notorious, depending on one’s point of view, for their public protests, getting huge numbers of people out on the street...

  • City Clerk official live blog of City Council meeting

    The city clerk is publishing a live blog of the decisions and votes of City Council’s current meeting. It’s remarkably useful — you can...

  • Event Guide: Jane’s Walk – “You’ve got to get out and walk”

    This weekend, everyone should be out walking. The annual Jane’s Walk takes place this Saturday and Sunday (May 2 and 3), and there are over 100...

  • Cherry blossoms blooming

    The cherry blossoms are in bloom at the University of Toronto (s-w corner of Robarts Library, corner of Harbord and Huron). They’re lovely, worth...