Features
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World Wide Wednesday: Radical Urban Theory and California Dreaming
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
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Scooters vs. Bikes vs. Ad Creep
In Spacing‘s current issue, we have a small feature by contributor Liam Lahey on when does a bike truly become a bike (nudge, nudge: go pick up an...
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Throwback Thursday: Hanlan’s Point Stadium
Every Thursday, Spacing will bring you a snapshot of Toronto’s past, looking into what took place that week in the city’s history. Throwback...
By Jake Schabas -
Universal Love Machine
This piece of public art is a bit of a mystery. It does not have a plaque displaying the name of the artist or title, which makes its origins difficult to...
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Nurture Nature
This is another piece of art located at the University of Toronto that’s easy to miss. “Nurture Nature” by Joe Fafard is located on a...
By Shaun Merritt -
Architecture Fetish: Longhouses
Toronto has been inhabited for thousands of years. During those years countless structures were built housing the aboriginal peoples who lived here but...
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Hot Docs: H2Oil
It’s safe to say that the Alberta Oil Sands have achieved a singular level of regard in the national imagination. Images of them proliferate the...
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Hot Docs: We Live in Public and Winnebago Man
In 1999, Josh Harris began working on QUIET, an underground bunker city eventually inhabited by 100
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Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: St. Clair West and the Wellington Place Neighbourhood
St. Clair West: Streetcars, Artists’ Colonies and More — SATURDAY, MAY 9 @ 1:30 PM In the late 1800s, artist Marmaduke Matthews started an...
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Katyn Monument
“Katyn Monument” by artist Tadeusz Janowski is located on the west side of town where King Street West becomes Roncesvalles Ave and Queen...
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Hot Docs: Waterlife
The Great Lakes have about 17 000 km of shorelines, and Toronto is lucky enough to sit on part of it, surrounded by the largest fresh water deposits in...
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Hot Docs: Those Who Remain
Watching Those Who Remain, a doc about the Mexican families who lose loved ones to American immigration, I kept thinking about a Mike Davis book called...
By Max Ritts