Bikes
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Rain to River: Storm Water Infrastructure for the People
Editor’s note: This is the third post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece...
By Sonia Ramundi -
Beyond the Big Box
Editor’s note: This is the second post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece...
By Sonia Ramundi -
BIKES: Helmets as a fashion accessory
As they navigate the grid of Canada’s largest city on their two wheels, Toronto cyclists have an excess of helmet choices as the lid gradually transforms...
By Hannah Griffin -
SPACING: Spring issue release party March 28th!
WHAT: Spacing spring 2014 release party & Jane Jacobs Prize ceremony WHEN: Friday, March 28th, 2014 TIME: Jane Jacobs Prize ceremony: 5:30pm-7pm ...
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A review of the new Shaw Street bike route
It has been a rather trying winter for cyclists in Toronto. Besides the unseasonably cold temperatures, the snow and ice has made cycling difficult...
By Sean Marshall -
Introducing Cleverhood: rain capes for the urban cyclist
Spacing is happy to announce our new partnership with Cleverhood, a Rhode Island-based designer of cycling rain capes, just voted by Forbes as one the...
By Spacing -
Rolling Out: The future of Toronto’s Bixi bikes
While city hall, last month, was dominated by one man’s almost unbelievable personal implosion, the business of Toronto is moving ahead… and...
By Glyn Bowerman -
Open streets coming to Toronto?
Pedestrians and cyclists alike may soon get their chance to take over a major street in Toronto, if only for a few days during the summer. Open streets...
By Josh Sherman -
Walking in Moscow
While Moscow can’t be described as a pedestrian-friendly city (see below), it is expanding its pedestrian zones with remarkable rapidity. On a visit...
By Dylan Reid -
Cyclists rally for bike lanes on Lansdowne Ave. after installation delays
As night descended on MacGregor Playground on Oct. 29, cyclists clad in ghoulish garb rallied in support of Lansdowne Ave. bike lanes that Toronto council...
By Josh Sherman -
York Region’s Rapidways: the good, the bad and the ugly
Viva Purple bus on new Highway 7 Rapidway I recently visited the first completed section of “Rapidway”, York Region Transit’s moniker...
By Sean Marshall -
Blocking the Way: Railways and freeways are major barriers to pedestrians
Pedestrian crossing of GO Transit Stouffville Corridor, at Marilyn Avenue near Agincourt Station The biggest barrier to pedestrians and cyclists in...
By Sean Marshall