Communication
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Headlines worth following
Here are a few headlines worth following today, and I’d love to hear your comments about: The City of Toronto Act: the new law passed yesterday at...
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Pedestrian Picnics
Ordinarily, you’d think one of the last places to have a picnic would be a gas station. Not so for the organizers of Streets are for Picnics! On...
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Vacant Lots and Orphan Spaces
There has been a lot of excitement in Toronto recently about the potential of revitalizing the public space of the city. Two new exhibitions are currently...
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Keep Toronto Clean posters
Does anyone know who is responsible for this poster initiative? I’ve seen the large displays on construction hoardings around the city for a few...
By Matthew Blackett -
SPACING: Green roof hopping in St. Petersburg
Here is Spacing.ca’s Monday morning article: Dianna Graham takes us on a geurrilla tour of green rooftops in St. Petersburg, Russia. The bustle of...
By Matthew Blackett -
The City Formerly Known as Cambridge
A bunch of clever folks in Cambridge, Mass. calling themselves “The Institute for Infinitely Small Things” are asking the public to rename...
By Matthew Blackett -
Interesting City Bits
Here are a few delighful bits of the city to watch out for on summer walks. Subway Mural I found this great mural of a subway train along Richmond Street...
By Dylan Reid -
ReSurface this Saturday
On Saturday, the graffiti collective Style in Progress will host the 3rd annual ReSurface event, where 30 graffiti artists transform the walls of the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Working out
According to the recent news: we are all working too much. Perhaps we are trying to save up for a new condo in the sky? Because soon only the affluent...
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Dose does posters, then dies
If you haven’t heard, the free daily paper Dose is dead. At first, I outrightly rejected the publication. But over time I began to enjoy the...
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Parkour and knitting on the TTC
Liz Worth, Spacing’s editorial assitant for the last year, has two pieces in the Toronto Star‘s ID section today. The first one is about the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Montreal’s duct tape thugs and bike parking spots
A dispatch from Spacing public art editor Leah Sandals: Kalisse de tabernac! I went to Montreal last weekend and witnessed a kind of recent addition to...
By Spacing