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  • Should the City buy Jane Jacobs’ house?

    From today’s Globe and Mail, an article on whether the city should buy Jane Jacobs’ house: With an asking price of $850,000, the ivy-covered...

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  • Forbes’ Least Green Machines

    North America’s most harmful vehicle: 2006 Ford E-Series van Forbes magazine has produced its first Least Green Machines list: a who’s who of...

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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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  • Italy!

    The above photo was taken at the corner of St. Clair and Dufferin around midnight the day Italy advanced to the World Cup final. I can only imagine how...

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  • Collection of articles

    NOW has a few good stories in their current issue. 1. Street furniture debate at City Hall “It’s too early to say whether the forthcoming...

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  • A post on the Post

    Some days the editors at Spacing have to think about things other than urban planning, graffiti or cycling infrastructure. Sometimes it’s our...

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  • New article by Rebecca Solnit

    Rebecca Solnit, whose wonderful book Wanderlust I would recommend to any psychogeographer or public space enthusiast, has just posted a great article on...

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  • CP24 — Everywhere, even the sidewalk

    I like CP24. It’s a useful channel, and does some good local features. I can even imagine that in rare instances, for a breaking news story on a...

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  • Skateboards and falcons

    As Dylan Reid posted a few days ago, there is a bit of a community uproar in Etobicoke’s New Toronto neighbourhood. It seems residents don’t...

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  • A Roar

    I was walking home through Hart House Circle, in the heart of the largely-deserted University of Toronto. There were not a lot of people around. I had...

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  • The Wealth of Cities

    HiMY SYeD is sending reports about the World Urban Forum to the Spacing Wire. Here is his third report.  A thousand people are squished in and outside of...

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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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