By Dylan Reid
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Event Guide: The Toronto Trilogy — Architecture for Humanity lecture series
Architecture for Humanity Toronto (a4hTO) is presenting its 2009 Lecture Series starting next Monday. This year the lectures are hosted by the Design...
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Experiments with creating walking maps
I recently had the privilege of observing a fascinating exercise in mapping walking routes in St. Jamestown. Youth from the high-rise district marked up...
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TTC Tales: What’s she wearing?
Enough of my friends have enjoyed this story that I thought Spacing‘s readers might like it too, as a weekend diversion. I was recently on the 504...
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City staff discuss the placement of new transit shelters
In October, I wrote a post about how, on narrow sidewalks, the new transit shelters being installed by the city as part of the new street furniture...
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Dept. of Funny Signs: Torontoist pun hunt
The Spacing Department of Funny Signs has to give a shout-out to Torontoist’s Great Pun Hunt – a painstakingly researched collection of the...
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New Toronto Public Realm Office off and running
Last year, the City of Toronto decided to set up a “Public Realm Office” that would be a one-stop shop in charge of managing the city’s...
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Assorted transportation articles: transit drunk tent, Japan demotorizing, dangerous Indian roads, pedlock, dangerous sidewalks, and talking CCTV
I’ve been doing a New Year’s file clearing, and I came across various articles that I had set aside because I thought they might be of...
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Losing a sense of “place”
I’ve been clearing out my old files, and I came across an article given to my me a couple of years ago by walking activist Helen Riley...
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Sidewalk ploughed!
When I got to Queen Street West around Spadina on my way to work this morning, I discovered a pleasant surprise — a long stretch of the sidewalk had...
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Gift Guide: City Walks – Toronto
City Walks: Toronto is a nicely-designed collection of 50 solid cards in an attractive box. Each compact card (4-1/16 x 5-5/8) has on one side a map with...
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First test of sidewalk snow-and-ice clearing
As Torontonians negotiated snowy and icy sidewalks this past week, some were no doubt reminded of the problems the city had last winter with clearing...
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Kingwell vs. Florida?
In an article in The Walrus earlier this year, Mark Kingwell referred to fellow urban thinker/public intellectual/University of Toronto professor/sometime...