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By Matthew Blackett

  • SPACING FICTION: “23 Bay, 23 Bay, 23 Bay…” by Jim Munroe

    Spacing has a number of articles from our public transit issue that we saved to publish exclusively on Spacing.ca. Last week we posted Robin Rix’s...

  • Greening our cities

    Fred Kent, director of Project for Public Spaces out of New York, has a great column on how Placemaking can reinvigorate the environmental movement. The...

  • Weekend round-up of links

    Murray Whyte of the Star write about orphan spaces: “They are the unloved, invisible and, chances are, right outside your door — dozens of...

  • The suburban urban forest

    In Sunday’s Toronto Star, Kenneth Kidd has a great piece about the urban forest in suburbia: …The houses duly go up, some of that topsoil gets...

  • Cleveland and Whitehorse bike racks

    Since Toronto is about to embark on a massive street furniture project, we should to take a look at other cities for inspiration. The top image is a bike...

  • Street-side mood lighting, bike tips and tactics

    Spacing‘s associate editor Shawn Micallef has an article in the Globe and Mail today about street-side mood lighting in Wrexham, Wales. “If...

  • Bye-bye, Monster Bins

    The monster garbage bin project is dead! Well, almost. This week, the City’s Works committee agreed to begin the process for a fat-ass street...

  • Missing rings from post

    The blog bricoleurbanism.org is reporting that the metals rings from Toronto bike racks are missing along a stretch of Dundas St. West (just east of...

  • SPACING: National Magazine Award nomination

    Just a brief post to note that our Spring/Summer 2005 issue, “The History of our Future,” was nominated for Best Editorial Package in the 2006...

  • SPACING: new issue release party Tuesday

    Spacing Release Party When: Tuesday, May 2nd, doors 8pm Where: Gladstone Hotel • 1214 Queen Street West Who: DJ Chris Thinn How much: $10 includes...

  • Weekend round-up

    A list of articles from the weekend newspapers: Tall buildings and shadows: Spacing associate editor Dylan Reid posted on the Spacing Wire back in...

  • Everything you need to read about Jane Jacobs

    Since Tuesday morning, the passing of Jane Jacobs has been a source of a lot of blog posts and newspaper tributes. Technorati, the web portal that...