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Cyclist Profile – Ken the urban designer
Cyclist profiles are a regular feature on I Bike TO. Name / Occupation / Age Ken Greenberg / Architect/Urban Designer / 62 What do you use your bike for...
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Wednesday’s Headlines
• Jamestown youth gets arts centre [ Toronto Star ] • Centre gets youth off the street and online [ Globe and Mail ] • Man kayaks solo...
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Photoblogging, feline style
Gotta love this project — a German fellow rigged up a keychain digital camera to take a photo every 2.5 minutes and attached it to his cat’s...
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SPACING POLL: how many bikes have been stolen from you?
About this time every year a friend tells me they’ve had their bike stolen. Three years ago I had my bike of 10 years stolen from me while I manned...
By Matthew Blackett -
All along my watchtower
I recently moved into a high-rise apartment in the most southernly part of Parkdale. My place is on the 24th floor and overlooks Humber Bay and most of...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: June 29, 2007
Don’t trash the new waste plan For those of you disappointed with the new garbage collection system city council approved by a vote of 26-18 on June...
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Cyclist Profile – Jamie the communications director
Cyclist Profiles are a regular feature on I Bike TO. Name / Occupation / Age Jamie Rilett, Director of Communications for the Honourable Donna Cansfield...
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Sexual Innuendo + Anti-Speed Racing Ads = Safer Pedestrians?
Just came across an interesting approach to reducing speed racing — and making streets safer for pedestrians — from the land downunda. It...
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Cyclist Profile – Clay the music teacher
Cyclist profiles are a regular feature on I Bike TO. Name / Occupation / Age Clay Puddester, music teacher, 35 What do you use your bike for? Well, I use...
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Los Angeles’ cyclist vs. motorist relationship
A year and a half ago, Adam Krawesky captured a conflict on camera (above photo series) between a motorist and a cyclist, and most Spacing Wire readers...
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Looking at cities
Someone recently suggested I look at the 1985 book Looking at Cities by Allan B. Jacobs, a great California urbanist who did a lot of work on how to make...
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HtO Park: Toronto’s Waterfront takes a big step forward
Last weekend, Toronto’s newest public space, HtO Park opened to the public. This is probably the most exciting addition to Toronto’s...
By Sean Marshall