Features
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Advertising in bike lanes
For those of you still on vacation (or you have the ability to listen to radio while at work), I just finished a half-hour appearance on Ontario Today...
By Matthew Blackett -
Star reports on “dapper” Igor
Spacing has never been a magazine that discusses the merits of any particular person’s appearance, but today we’ll make that exception. The...
By Matthew Blackett -
ROM quietly raises admission prices… again
I was at the Royal Ontario Museum earlier today for a media view and was shocked to see that the admission price has quietly risen 10% or more across the...
By Leah Sandals -
The Glass Factory
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – In early March, I discovered a missing board on the hoarding surrounding an abandoned glass factory in my neighbourhood in...
By Joseph Clement -
“The street is an extension of your living room” Rethinking city streets at Streets are for Picnics
If streets weren’t lined with cars, what would you use them for? This is the question Streets are for People has brought to the fore with public...
By Chloe Ellingson -
Fringe Benefits continued: “Informal Urbanism”
A key theme of the new exhibition Fringe Benefits (reviewed yesterday) that I found very interesting was the idea of “informal urbanism”...
By Dylan Reid -
Exhibition Review: Fringe Benefits
The attention of Toronto’s “urbanist” community (myself included) tends to focus on the central part of the city, the old City of...
By Dylan Reid -
Ourtopias: Cities and the Role of Design
I just finished reading Ourtopias: Cities and the Role of Design, a collection of essays that were developed out of the Ourtopias conference hosted by the...
By Matthew Hague -
Road Trip: Saint John, New Brunswick — solid urbanism
We spent a quick night in Saint John, New Brunswick last Friday en route to Nova Scotia. Though Saint John’s glory days, when it was a busy port on...
By Shawn Micallef -
Frenemies: Not Just for The Hills Anymore
Ah, passive-aggression. It’s the preferred conflict style of many an introverted arty type, myself admittedly included. Despite being a fan of the...
By Leah Sandals -
Street Stories: The “What street am I?” contest
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who entered this contest, and congratulations to our winner — Jeff Garkowski. The answers to the questions have been...
By Todd Harrison -
Tree Tuesday: Escape from the Concrete Confines
The Toronto Tree Tours is a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee that offers walking tours in neighbourhoods across the...
By Dale Duncan