By Matthew Blackett
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Creative Mapping Contest deadline on Monday!
Spacing magazine presents the CREATIVE MAPPING CONTEST Do you love maps? Are you an illustrator, graphic designer, or visual storyteller? Spacing wants...
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Vancouver’s placement of info pillars more palatable
If Toronto needed some direction on how to deal with obstructive info pillars on sidewalks, the city needs only to look to Vancouver. While I personally...
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VIDEO: The Social Life of Small Places
William Whyte got it right: the legendary urbanist created the film “The Social Life of Small Places” that has become one of the best learning...
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Should it be called the “downtown relief” subway line?
Since the Sheppard East subway line idea has been nixed (for now), attention has turned to where the next — and most logical — subway line should be...
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Removing Jarvis bike lanes could face legal challenge
The Jarvis bike lanes, slated for removal this summer, may be sticking around a little longer than expected. The Toronto Cyclists Union announced today...
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Contribute photos to Spacing’s next national issue
As we mentioned last week, Spacing will continue to publish a national edition of the magazine twice a year (plus two Toronto-centric editions a year)...
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LORINC: Don Bosco, daycare and a little more math for Rob Ford
Whatever else one thinks about Mayor Rob Ford and his tumultuous tenure on the second floor of City Hall, there’s little question that he is genuinely...
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Spacing’s next issue will be national
With the success of Spacing’s first national issue — our special summer edition has sold twice as well as any previous issue we’ve ever...
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FAVOURITE FRIDAY: Which piece of local public art is your favourite?
Across the Spacing Blog Network today we are asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us know which...
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Spacing’s new issue arrives!
The new issue of Spacing — with an 18-page cover section focused on food in the city — will hit newsstands and your mailboxes next week. A whack of boxes...
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Reality check on the waterfront
A group of prominent urbanists — Eric Miller (director of the Cities Centre at U of T), Paul Bedford (former chief planner for Toronto), Richard Sommer...
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How I could support a Sheppard subway extension (but not Rob Ford’s version)
While I attending Earl Haig Secondary School in the early 1990s, the construction of subway lines suddenly became a fascinating interest to me. There was...