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By Dylan Reid

  • The Igor effect

    A couple of summers ago, I did a post about a bike being stolen from in front of the police HQ. I said that the police ought to make more effort about...

  • Event Guide: What’s New in New York?

    WHAT: “What’s New in New York?”: An evening of film and discussion featuring Transportation Alternatives‘ Noah Budnick. Films by...

  • Fringe Benefits continued: How should “Avenues” develop?

    The way the new exhibition Fringe Benefits (reviewed earlier) presented the dynamics of ethnic communities in the suburbs helped to crystallize some...

  • Fringe Benefits continued: “Informal Urbanism”

    A key theme of the new exhibition Fringe Benefits (reviewed yesterday) that I found very interesting was the idea of “informal urbanism”...

  • Exhibition Review: Fringe Benefits

    The attention of Toronto’s “urbanist” community (myself included) tends to focus on the central part of the city, the old City of...

  • Gallery Guide: I_Wanna_See_You

    It’s always interesting to see your city through an outsider’s eyes, and there’s an enjoyable opportunity to do so currently showing at...

  • Events Guide: Parkdale/High Park activism

    There are two events taking place in the Parkdale/High Park area next week about improving walking and cycling access in the west end. Ride the South...

  • Perceptions of the metropolis

    I recently read an article by the English historian Paul Slack about perceptions of London, England in the seventeenth century. During this century, the...

  • One Book: Photographing the city

    To finish off my thoughts about reading Michael Redhill’s novel Consolation, I’d like to look at a theme explored in depth in the later part...

  • One Book: Living in the city

    Back in February, Spacing writers posted a series of explorations and ruminations based on reading Michael Redhill’s Toronto-based novel...

  • Metrolinx consultation extended

    Metrolinx (the former Greater Toronto Transportation Authority) is currently undertaking an ambitious project to create a comprehensive transportation...

  • Walking Thorncliffe Park

    After my walk around Flemingdon Park (and being questioned by the police for taking photos), which I described in yesterday’s post, I decided to...