By Dylan Reid
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Art Attack – Operation Snow Fort – tonight
The Toronto Public Space Committee is taking advantage of today’s storm to invite everyone to build an impromptu snow fort: The Toronto Public Space...
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Street food should be simple to prepare
It’s not often I find myself in complete agreement with Denzil Minnan-Wong, but the way city council has managed to unnecessarily complicate what...
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Fear and hope for Queen West
The approval last week by the City’s committee of adjustment of a mixed-use retail and condo development, including a big-box home improvement...
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Nifty street infrastructure guide from Seattle
A colleague sent me a really useful web guide to the infrastructure elements in a pedestrian-friendly right-of-way (that is, the public part of a street...
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ARCHIVES: White powder fun
During the holiday season Spacing will re-publish articles previously seen in our print edition. This article appeared in Spacing #3 (Work and Play)...
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Trying a new streetscape on Cherry Street
There’s an interesting streetscape experiment in the works for Cherry St. between King and Lakeshore, part of the new West Donlands development...
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American cities becoming more walkable
The Brookings Institution in the US has recently published a study, “Footloose and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30...
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Help develop Toronto’s walking strategy – and other walking notes
As I’ve noted in passing in some previous posts, the City of Toronto is currently developing a “Walking Strategy” to guide Toronto...
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Fix the 501 Queen Streetcar Forum
The Queen’s crown is slipping. She’s becoming tardy and unreliable. Her subjects have lost faith and are leaving. The Queen streetcar used to...
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Pedestrians crossing mid-block in Toronto: the definitive guide
Last summer, I wrote an article in NOW magazine about pedestrians crossing in the middle of a block, noting that it is in fact legal to do so, so that...
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Greek pedestrians take direct action
We think there’s a lot to do to make Toronto more pedestrian-friendly, but a recent article in the New York Times about pedestrian problems in...
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My stop is …
It’s great to see and hear the automated stop announcements proliferating rapidly through Toronto’s streetcars. Last week, for the first...