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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Matthew Blackett

  • Spacing and Daily Dose of Imagery present… pt. III

    looking southeast from Sheraton’s rooftop • photo by Sam Javanrouh • see it larger Cross-posted to Spacing Votes  Spacing asked Sam...

  • Liberty Village reaches new BENCHmark

    photos of previously installed BENCHmark benches • photo by Bouke Salverda New BENCHmark benches unveiled on Thursday September 29 at 1:00 pm Street...

  • Future of Gardiner report to be made public

    Cross-posted to Spacing Votes A report commissioned by the City of Toronto on what to do with the Gardiner Expressway is about to be made public at the...

  • Spacing and Daily Dose of Imagery present… pt. II

    City Hall • photo by Sam Javanrouh • see it larger Spacing asked Sam Javanrouh of Daily Dose of Imagery a few months ago to take the cover photo...

  • Branding a place

    Back in July I was asked by new media marketing guru Eli Singer to make a presentation about the success of Spacing subway button collection. I took part...

  • Spacing and Daily Dose of Imagery present…

    Toronto’s Old City Hall • photo by Sam Javanrouh • see it larger Spacing asked Sam Javanrouh of Daily Dose of Imagery a few months ago to...

  • David Topping’s every subway station trip

    David Topping of Torontoist has a piece in the National Post today about his summer project 69 Stations — he took a trip every day to one of...

  • Streets to Screens tonight

    Streets to Screens September 21 Bonus Screening The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same 7pm • Toronto Free Gallery • Free/PWYC...

  • New Toronto street signs

    Tonight, the City of Toronto has its first public meeting about the proposed new street signs. In the Winter 2006 issue of Spacing, I wrote about the...

  • Toronto’s garbage woes answered?

    Cross-posted to Spacing Votes I sometimes watch City Council meetings on Rogers. Today I turned it on and found councillors debating whether to buy a...

  • The lost city of Chernobyl

    I stumbled across a site with a batch of images from Chernobyl. Besides being abandoned, the city has also become a haven for graffiti artists. Also worth...

  • Hume’s Stockholm Syndrome II

    Christopher Hume is on a Stockholm kick. Today in the Toronto Star he writes about Hammarby Sjostad, a waterfront community built over the last decade on...