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Street furniture winner announced
The winner of the street furniture contract was announced this morning — Astral Media. While I found Astral’s designs to be the least...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: April 19 2007
Spinning garbage numbers OK, so Toronto may be slow to build bike lanes. And our transit system could use a lot of work. And, sure, our mayor may not be...
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Still waiting to hear from CBS Outdoor…
We enter day two without a response from CBS Outdoor on why they used a Spacing cover in their street furniture renderings (we’ve now sent three...
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São Paulo goes ad-free
While Toronto looks to add more garish advertising to its street with a massive street furniture contract, Sà£o Paulo, Brazil has taken another route and...
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Thanks but no thanks, CBS Outdoor
Earlier this week, Spacing Wire reader Gloria Tu pointed out to the editors of Spacing that CBS Outdoor’s proposals uses the cover of...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: April 12
A Toronto for all Next to climate change, social inclusion — or more specifically, ensuring that Torontonians of all backgrounds have a voice in...
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City Hall: The beginning of the end for street furniture?
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Rami Tabello the hardworking activist behind the ingenious website illegalsigns.ca is being threatened by outdoor advertising...
By Dale Duncan -
New twist in street furniture saga
There’s been a new twist in Toronto’s street furniture saga. Illegalsigns.ca, a local outdoor advertising watchdog, is accusing on their...
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Hume lays into City’s street furniture plan
The Toronto Star’s Christopher Hume pulled no punches in his column today. He demands that the City refuse all street furniture submissions because...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: April 5
Blowing off climate change You’d think that Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby has been around long enough to remember a time when society functioned...
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The dull blight of sameness
I went to see the street furniture models today at city hall, and and they brought to mind a phrase Jane Jacobs uses, “The Great Blight of...
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Street furniture models on display for 5 days
Spacing just received word that the street furniture models will be on display for four more days (five in total) at City Hall in the west side of the...
By Matthew Blackett