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United We Can
Found this article on CBC’s website about binners and dumpster divers. I like the name of the organization involved in this project: United We Can...
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Cycle Disobedience
Albert Howell has a great article in the Globe and Mail highlighting issues surrounding the role of local goverment to supply cycle-safe infrastructure...
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Senior ticketed for taking too long to cross street
Gotta love this — an old lady crossing the street in Los Angeles gets a ticket from a motorcycle cop because she was too slow. It’s still...
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Catcalls
It’s easy for a male like myself to forget that public space can be made significantly less friendly for women, through catcalling by men...
By Dylan Reid -
Art installation gets bomb squad call
On April 1st, five teenager girls, ages 16 to 17, put up question block icons seen in Super Mario video games. The clever public art installation in...
By Matthew Blackett -
Public Art Abuse?
I was walking past the parkette at the S-E corner of Bloor and Spadina on Thursday night about 7:00 when I saw three guys on bikes riding on, leaning on...
By Dylan Reid -
Like Spacing’s buttons, but more practical
One the fun fallouts of producing our Toronto subway buttons is hearing how people use their buttons. One lady bought a pack of station buttons that were...
By Matthew Blackett -
Photjunkie wins Bloggie
Regular Spacing contributor Rannie Turingan [ aka photojunkie.ca ] won Best Canadian Blog at the 2006 Bloggies held at SXSW. The Bloggies are one of the...
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Alexandra Park Memorial Mural
An attractive mural has been painted onto a wall on Cameron Street, at the edge of the Alexandra Park housing development, in memory of a long-time...
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Follow-up: French riots and public space
The BBC did a radio program this week following up on the riots in the suburbs of Paris three months ago. At the time, there was some commentary that part...
By Dylan Reid -
City soundtracks
Walking through the city, one is treated to a variety of sounds — it could be the conversation of the people walking ahead of you on the sidewalk...
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Toronto’s Public Spaces in 2005
Both Eye Weekly and NOW ran excellent 2005 year in review features. Here’s the stuff they pointed out that the Spacing Wire thinks is worth...
By Matthew Blackett