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  • Thank you, John Sewell

    John Sewell, the former mayor of Toronto from 1979-81, has been writing about city issues for Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly and NOW for 18 years. This week...

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  • Urban Leadership Awards

    The Canadian Urban Institute, the nation’s leader in progressive civic policy development, annually recognizes people and organizations with their...

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  • Writing in Public

    Since 1999, Found magazine has been collecting messages found in public areas and sharing them with the world. This week, the Toronto Star published an...

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  • Go Leafs

    On this last of the hot and sticky evenings I was riding down Yonge to the YMCA, thinking it was unusually quiet. I had the streets to myself — or...

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  • Bumvertising

    I was up the other night watching the Daily Show when they did a report on Bumvertising. Benjamin Rogovy, a 22-year-old “entrepreneur”, as...

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  • Patchwork soccer

    Spacing‘s “Work and Play” issue discussed the importance of play in public space, both as a way of asserting public use of space, and as...

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  • How the streets get cleaned

    It’s easy to forget how much work it takes to keep our public spaces clean. This weekend, the Globe and Mail featured a great story in its weekend...

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  • Walking LA

    A woman named Lisa Salem is trying to walk all over Los Angeles, without going back home, with only a camera-fitted baby stroller sparsely packed with a...

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  • Death of an Urban Explorer

    Jeff Chapman, a.k.a. Ninjalicious, the creator of the urban exploration zine Infiltration, died this week at the age of 31. Many moving tributes to him...

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  • Banksy graffiti on Israel’s wall

    The British “guerrilla graffiti” artist Banksy has created a series of graffiti on the security wall that Israel is building through the West...

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  • Urban Oases

    The amazing Jeff Chapman has a wonderful website called Urban Oases that chronicles his, uh, times spent in Toronto fountains. He writes: “What is...

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  • The Beaches Guardian Angel

    It is not often that a newspaper does an obituary on a street person, but the Toronto Star did so this past weekend on The Beaches’ Steve Whale...

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