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By Dylan Reid

  • Earth Day street festival on John St.

    Streets Are for People is organizing an eco-fair to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday April 22. John Street will be closed to traffic (or, if you will, opened...

  • “Change is in the Air” public consultation

    In the wake of the publication of Toronto’s Clean Air Plan, the city is holding a public consultation on the plan and on clean air issues...

  • Jane’s Walk

    To honour Jane Jacobs, who died a year ago, Mayor David Miller announced in November 2006 that May 4 would officially be “Jane Jacobs Day” in...

  • Sustainable Transportation II: Bremen, Germany

    Last week, I posted some of the interesting material I heard about Kingston, Ontario, at Moving the Economy‘s workshop on sustainable...

  • The “Water Challenge” — Taste the Difference!

    In conjunction with Spacing‘s next issue, whose theme will be “water,” Spacing contributor Sean Lerner will be conducting a public blind...

  • Kingston’s plan for sustainable transportation

    On March 22, I attended a great workshop on sustainable transportation put together by local organization Moving the Economy. I am going to post some of...

  • Virtual City Tours

    I just found an interesting site called “Virtual City,” where you can pick a location or a route in Toronto and it will show you a photo of...

  • Street food is in the air

    I’ve often heard people wonder why it is that the only food you can buy from a street vendor in Toronto is a sausage, when the city is full of...

  • ROM makes a deal

    Back in January I posted about the Royal Ontario Museum‘s attempt to get out of paying the usual fee to the city for the encroachment on public...

  • The dull blight of sameness

    I went to see the street furniture models today at city hall, and and they brought to mind a phrase Jane Jacobs uses, “The Great Blight of...

  • Pedestrian Sundays expand

    The successful Kensington Market Pedestrian Sundays are expanding to other neighbourhoods this year. Both Baldwin Street Village and Mirvish Village (on...

  • Pedestrian signals next target of outdoor advertising?

    Bike Toronto has just broken the news of an April 1 initiative at city hall to raise revenue by selling advertising space in the unused part of pedestrian...