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By Matthew Blackett

  • Bikes and feet

    Christopher Hume had an outpouring of response to his recent column on the state of walking in Toronto. He mainly focused his derision on drivers, but...

  • Great idea, wrong funding model

    Could this be a Toronto bus stop? (image is from London’s transit system) Howard Moscoe, TTC Chair, has put forth a great idea — install a...

  • SPACING PHOTOBLOG

    If you haven’t already seen it, Spacing has launched our own photoblog, SpacingPhotos. Every weekday a new image related to a theme will be posted...

  • These street are not made for walking

    Christopher Hume wrote an excellent column yesterday in the Toronto Star about the state of walking in this city. Check it out here.

  • Urbanism

    Chris Hardwicke runs a wonderful wesbite called urbanism.org which is a portal to the planning and architecture world. It functions in a similar fashion...

  • Flying the Blue Flag

    In the last two weeks, both Eye and NOW have covered the Blue Flag project going on at some of Toronto’s beaches. Spacing editor Dale Duncan also...

  • Lakeside

    Our very smart friends over the Toronto Environmental Alliance are getting into the cultural game with the opening on their art show Lakeside. The event...

  • Dufferin Grove + Little Malta

    Spacing editor and flaneur Shawn Micallef wrote the City article for Eye this week. And a nice little piece on Dufferin Grove in the “Wandering...

  • Vienna goes ad-free

    All the signs in a popular Vienna shopping district have been swathed in bright yellow fabric as part of an art project designed to spark debate about...

  • In no way removed

    While parks are recreational spaces where an individual or group can take a break from the urban environment, the parkette’s natural environmental...

  • The Halftone Conspiracy

    The Halftone Conspiracy is a collaborative poster project. Monthly, the co-conspirators gather, with posters they’ve created in hand, to transform a...

  • WELCOME TO THE SPACING WIRE

    Welcome to the Spacing Wire. This new feature on spacing.ca is designed to act as a hub for news, articles, events, websites, projects, and ideas about...