Features
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New garbage bins and newspaper boxes on T.O.’s streets
It must be summer vacation at One Yonge Street because the Star is reporting today on the death of the MegaBins (Spacing reported this development back on...
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The grey areas of ad creep
I came across three advertising campaigns that are worth noting. The first is a City of San Francisco outreach campaign to property owners asking them to...
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Forbes’ Least Green Machines
North America’s most harmful vehicle: 2006 Ford E-Series van Forbes magazine has produced its first Least Green Machines list: a who’s who of...
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Useful billboards
Ad creep is an obivous concern for us folks at Spacing, but there are instances when some good can come from it. Take the California community of...
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Collection of articles
NOW has a few good stories in their current issue. 1. Street furniture debate at City Hall “It’s too early to say whether the forthcoming...
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The dirt on graffiti
Is it still graffiti if all you’re doing is cleaning away dirt? Street artist Paul Curtis (aka Moose) has been messing with the minds of city...
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CP24 — Everywhere, even the sidewalk
I like CP24. It’s a useful channel, and does some good local features. I can even imagine that in rare instances, for a breaking news story on a...
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Million dollar building
A few months back a website gained notoriety for selling tiny pieces of it’s homepage in a crass attempt to raise $1 million. The Sandberg Institute...
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Billboards in the city
Today’s Globe and Mail has an article about video billboards and the effect they have on drivers. From Dr. Gridlock’s column today...
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Taking it to the street (furniture)
Two bits of interesting information have emerged from this week’s City Council meetings regarding the street furniture contract and the death of the...
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Ad Blights Park
In Spacing Issue 5, I wrote about how my local park, St. Andrew’s, has recently been revitalized. I went there to eat lunch today, and I was happy...
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EUCAN’T! Megabins are dead!
Yesterday, it became official: the mega-bins are dead. The city planned to leave the existing bins and allow advertising for the next few years until the...
By Matthew Blackett