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  • Artful Street Furniture

    Imagine a city where street furniture is designed by psychiatric survivors and artists. It’s a far cry from a city with fully harmonized street...

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  • The Streets of San Francisco painted and lubed up

    Toronto has been called “San Francisco upside down” because where they have hills, we have ravines. Their Victorians are wooden, ours are...

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  • How to Upholster a Tree Stump

    Madelon Galland reports on his Tree Stump project in SuperNaturale. I remember seeing one of the stumps last time I was in New York and always wondered...

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  • Saturday’s public space headlines

    • Roadsworth getting his street cred [ Toronto Star ] • A problem with the Beav on Ward’s Island [ Toronto Star ] • A garden of...

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  • Weekend headlines

    • Bike sculpture built for 300 [ Toronto Star ] • HUME: Glorious kick in the asphalt [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto’s east-west divide ...

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  • Cyclists Wanted!

    As was posted earlier in Spacing, Queen’s Quay west from Spadina to York will be partially closed to car traffic from August 11 – 20th as part...

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  • Calinfrastructure

    I’m not sure if it’s boring or interesting or just weird to post pictures of foreign garbage cans — but I’m always struck at the...

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  • Front yard art

    Spacing’s very own Leah Sandals was asked to curate Toronto’s front yard art scene by the Toronto Star — the piece ended up being a...

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  • Alley Jaunt and the evolving fence

    Alley Jaunt will take over the laneways in the Little Italy neighbourhood this coming weekend (August 12-13). I am a sucker for laneways and find this...

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  • Get tangled this Sunday

    This Sunday, the Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry is coordinating a conversation on entangled territories in the city. Not only will it address...

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  • Nature in the Garage

    Nature in the Garage, an exhibition carried out by Gallery 1313, in association with liveARTs, and in partnership with the City of Toronto, runs from June...

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  • Infrastucture art

    I was forwarded an interesting art exhibit called Safe Design sponsored by Safety Issues magazine that took place at the MoMA in New York last fall. A few...

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