By Matthew Blackett
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Suburban homelessness
In the Toronto Star today: “As houses sprout like dandelions in new subdivisions all over the suburban GTA, the regions around Toronto have the look...
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Fallen Fruit
A community group out of LA is trying to convince people to lobby their cities to plant fruit trees. They declare: “Our cities are planted with...
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Home Tours with Darren O’Donnell
As part of the Summerworks festival, Darren O’Donnell’s theatre company brings you Home Tours. Darren will take an audience around the...
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Street signs
If you haven’t noticed, over the last few months the city has been installing new street signs to replace some of the rusting and aging wayfinders...
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Terror and the TTC
The Toronto Star reports on the 10-year anniversary of the subway accident just north of Dupont station which killed three people and injured 140...
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The outdoors helps your brain, kids!
A decent article from Orion on kids who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and how green spaces can help their affliction. It seems that...
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Halftone Conspiracy this weekend
The Halftone Conspiracy is a collaborative poster project open to anyone. Monthly, the co-conspirators gather, with posters they’ve created in hand...
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Comments on police cameras in public space
A few days ago we asked for your comments on The Globe and Mail’s opinion poll question: “Most of London is monitored by police cameras...
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Best Public Spaces in the World
The Project for Public Spaces, a non-profit out of NYC that helps communities and cities build smart public spaces, has an interesting feature on their...
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Should Canadian cities install security cameras on streets?
The Globe and Mail runs daily opinion polls, and the question posed the other day was: “Most of London is monitored by police cameras. Should...
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Public space Saturday
The Globe and Mail had a bunch of interesting articles today. The first article was about the number of stray cats running around in our alleys. Some say...
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Book launch tonight!
Our friends at the Toronto Public Space Committee are presenting a book launch tonight starting at 7:30pm at the Victory Cafe (on Markham, a block west of...