Events
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YIMBY returns
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. After last year’s success, the YIMBY festival is returning to the Gladstone Hotel October 27. For those who may be out...
By Dale Duncan -
Cultural Geography in Windsor
For our Windsor readers and those who may be heading to the Sun Parlour of Canada this weekend, there is a symposium on the cultural geography of the...
By Shawn Micallef -
A good week for walking
The Walk21 conference last week got remarkable, and entirely unexpected, media coverage. In fact, I suspect pedestrian issues got more media coverage than...
By Dylan Reid -
Walk21: Wayfinding
I have a particular interest in the idea of pedestrian maps, and co-created one for the now-finished Walking Life exhibition (I hope to post an electronic...
By Dylan Reid -
Walk21: Public health and urban design
Today’s Walk21 post brings you some findings from a fascinating session on the relationship between public health and urban design as they affect...
By Dylan Reid -
Nuit Blanche in three minutes and twenty-six seconds
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AeEvBJIffs[/youtube] Spacing contributor Jessica Wolfe made a “short and rough” composition of her...
By Shawn Micallef -
Walk21 reports: the business case for walking
There’s already been far more interesting stuff at the Walk21 conference than I can easily report, so I will just give a quick taste of some of the...
By Dylan Reid -
Doors Open Niagara
One of the happiest traditions in recent years has been Doors Open, a free annual architectural event that allows visitors to explore and appreciate old...
By Sean Marshall -
LEAFy Drinks
Are you passionate about Toronto’s urban forest? Do you enjoy a nice beverage? Join LEAF staff and volunteers for a pint at the Victory Cafe on...
By Todd Irvine -
Walk21 appetizer
A quick reminder that there are several community events in the next couple of days related to the Walk21 conference starting this evening in Toronto. I...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto is the black sheep of the White Nights
Nuit Blanche has come and gone and proved once again to be a wonderful evening for thousands of participants. And once again, the event has triggered...
By Dave Meslin -
An attempt at live blogging the Great Queen Street Psychogeographic Walk
The idea of live blogging has never really appealed as writing is generally better when the author thinks about it for a while (there are exceptions of...
By Shawn Micallef