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By Dylan Reid

  • Magical skating moment

    In medieval European chronicles, the authors would make a special note of years in which the local river froze over, which might happen once a decade...

  • Toronto can and must set up an alternative to the OMB

    Christopher Hume, interviewing former Toronto chief planner Paul Bedford, has written one of the best columns I’ve seen so far about the issue of...

  • London, England pedestrian initiatives

    Pedestrian cross in Kensington, London, England. – – – – – – – – As Toronto begins to work on creating a...

  • City of Lights

    Spacing Wire readers might enjoy this remarkable 360-degree image of Paris at night (scroll horizontally to see the whole thing). You can see many of the...

  • Urban health research

    The Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI) in Toronto facilitates research that examines how the social and physical conditions in cities affect the...

  • Civic improvements

    CBC’s Metro Morning show this morning features an interview with Toronto’s chief planner, Ted Tyndorf, (RealPlayer streaming audio, 4:47...

  • ROM seeks free ride

    When buildings intrude beyond their private property into public space, they have to pay a small rental fee to the City for that space. The Royal Ontario...

  • Where would you meet in Toronto?

    I’m reading a very interesting book called The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki. The author describes a fascinating experiment by a social...

  • Perverse Psychogeography?

    “Psychogeography” seems to be generally considered a relatively benign observational activity — a random drifting through the city to...

  • Chainlink Beautiful?

    The new “Bennet Gates” at the south end of Philosopher’s Walk on the University of Toronto campus recently won a “Clean and...

  • News of the World

    Last week, Spacing‘s Dale Duncan wrote an article in Eye Magazine about five great public space ideas from other cities. She cited an initiative in...

  • Lecture on “The New Landscape”

    Christopher Hume profiles local landscape architect Janet Rosenberg in the Star today. She says interesting things about the difficulty of creating...