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  • Mis-Guided

    Mis-Guide is a book and website created by Wrights & Sites, a group of four UK based artists. Mis-Guide is a guide book that can be used in any city...

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  • The dirt on graffiti

    Is it still graffiti if all you’re doing is cleaning away dirt? Street artist Paul Curtis (aka Moose) has been messing with the minds of city...

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  • Dancing on the street corner

    This is an interesting little self-made documentary about dancing on the corner of a street and the type of reactions and experiences one can encounter...

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  • Hockey Night in London for Canada Day

    One of my closest friends moved to England about six years ago and was surprised to find a large contingent of ex-pat Canadians who came out on Canada Day...

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  • New Way to Colour the City

    Apparently the latest in random city beautification techniques is LED throwies, LED lights taped together with a battery and a magnet which can then be...

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  • Great street art

    You may remember Mark Jenkins from a previous Spacing Wire post (he’s the dude who put lolipop-like things on top of parking metres). He’s...

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  • Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland.

    Detroit is one of the most striking and well known examples of urban blight and “white flight” in North America. Many, many buildings are...

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  • The Bubble Battle

    Those crazy kids at Newmindspace are organizing a continent-wide Bubble Battle. Toronto’s event will take place this Sunday (July 2nd) on the steps...

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  • Public space in the news today

    There are a whack of articles in the Star today that relate to public space issues: City councillors gave general approval yesterday for city staff to...

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  • Billboard liberation

    Nothing better than a liberated billboard to celebrate our first anniversary. This piece was done by Fauxreel. It was up recently for 43 hours at Spadina...

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  • Street furniture gone wild

    Today at Toronto’s City Hall, city councillors will finish their debate about the possible street furniture contract the City wishes to tender in...

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  • Improv Everywhere

    There’s a great improv group out of New York called Improv Everywhere who do clever public interventions. They are ususally elaborate and involve...

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