By Dylan Reid
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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...
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New transit shelters eating into sidewalk space
New TTC shelter at Queen West and Peter In recent weeks, while walking on routes which have been familiar to me for years on Queen Street West and Hoskin...
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Heavier U.S. population uses billions of dollars more worth of fuel
For the most recent issue of Spacing (coming out next week) I reviewed a book by Mary Soderstrom called The Walkable City. It’s full of interesting...