Events
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World Urban Forum – Day One
HiMY SYeD is sending daily reports from the World Urban Forum to the Spacing Wire. Here is his first report. World Urban Forum – Day One ( Monday...
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Vancouver takes on the World
As a tribute to the UN Habitat World Urban Forum taking place in Vancouver this week, Vancouver weekly The Georgia Straight dedicated many of its pages to...
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Final City Idol tonight
Toronto & East York Final Event! Six candidates will try their best. Only one will become a City Idol! The winner will run for City Council in the...
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Pigeon Condo Talks
This is last minute, for today’s talk, but we’ll pretend everybody is reading this on a Blackberry or Palm Treo while moving around the city...
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Pedestrian Picnics
Ordinarily, you’d think one of the last places to have a picnic would be a gas station. Not so for the organizers of Streets are for Picnics! On...
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Native Tree Walk at Brickworks
June 11th 2-4PM Join arborist, Todd Irvine, for a guided tour of the native trees within the stunning quarry and adjacent ravine of the Don Valley Brick...
By Shawn Micallef -
Vacant Lots and Orphan Spaces
There has been a lot of excitement in Toronto recently about the potential of revitalizing the public space of the city. Two new exhibitions are currently...
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Check out new subway trains starting today
It looks like the TTC and its workers are in some tense talks which could lead to another walkout, The Star is reporting. You can ignore these...
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Bits and bites about the winning waterfront design
On Friday, we reported that the West 8 design team had won the competition to redesign our Waterfront. Here’s what some of the mainstream media had...
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Soft City Workshop @ Riverdale Art Walk Sunday
UPBAG’s Soft City Workshop at the Riverdale Art Walk: Sunday, June 4, 1-5 pm, Toronto Free Gallery (660 Queen Street East) The Soft City is an...
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T.Ode Continues (to battle road rage)
This morning our trailer was parked along the side of St. Lawrence Market until about noon, on the west side. Airstreams were built for Montana, not...
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The Networked City … and Saturday Tour
The Networked City Walk along Yonge Street from Dundas Square to the waterfront and you will hear stories about the neighbourhood, revisit the old Bulova...
By Shawn Micallef