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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Shawn Micallef

  • GIFT GUIDE: Fort York — A Short History and Guide

    Toronto Culture division has just published “Fort York: A Short History and Guide.” Written by historian (and Chief Curator of Toronto...

  • Spacing Green Issue launch party photos & video

    Many thanks to all who braved a chilly night and headed to the east side of downtown for Spacing’s Green Issue launch party Monday night. We had a...

  • More Toronto library branches go wireless

    The world’s busiest public library system is (yet again) even better, part of a pattern at the city department it’s most difficult to find...

  • CCTV Fashion Police

    In Toronto and much of Canada, the introduction of CCTV by police to monitor public space is still in its infancy, passionately supported in some...

  • The Velomobile

    In the Sunday Star’s Ideas section Leslie Scrivener wrote about the velomobile, the fibreglass-clad three-wheeled horizontal bicycle. In the (long...

  • SCTV brings the Maritimes to Yonge Street

    [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=vCcbUDBqVzo[/youtube] In the comment section of the recent Toronto as Baltimore post reader “Michael”...

  • Toronto as Baltimore

    [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fjss4dErY9c[/youtube] Often I’ll watch movies that I’m not into if they’re filmed in Toronto, just...

  • Voice of the Tube Fired

    With the recent introduction of the pleasant automated voice announcing TTC stops, it is interesting to read that the voice actor behind the familiar...

  • Taddle Creek Tenth Anniversary

    While we at Spacing are about to launch our 10th issue next week, the literary magazine named after one of Toronto’s lost creeks is celebrating...

  • Where NYC manhole covers come from

    Yesterday’s New York Times had a piece (and a neat audio slide show) on the the origin of that city’s manhole covers. Foreign worker safety is...

  • Cities & Ottawa

    The Star’s business columnist David Olive wrote a piece about the extreme antipathy in Canada directed towards cities on Saturday: Outside Canada...

  • Walking on Thin Ice — 1981 New York

    Just after John was shot in 1980, Yoko Ono made this video for her song Walking on Thin Ice. It was the last the song Lennon worked on and he was holding...