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  • The Bubble Project

    The bubble project is a great idea for tagging advertising in public space: Our communal spaces are being overrun with ads. Train stations, streets...

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  • More on St. Clair

    Some folks are writing letters and calling up the SOS group to voice their displeasure in the way they’ve stopped City building. They list their...

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  • Butter Jam

    The butter billboard campaign may be clever, but this jam of the campaign (on Spadina north of Queen) is even better, turning an ad into a sci-fi...

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  • Remaking the face of public space

    If you have a copy of today’s Globe and Mail you should flip to page A16 for a feature on our friends at the Toronto Public Space Committee and...

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  • Go Leafs

    On this last of the hot and sticky evenings I was riding down Yonge to the YMCA, thinking it was unusually quiet. I had the streets to myself — or...

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  • Billboards and art in Halifax

    Whenever I see a billboard or ad that has little or no information on it, I suspect a sneaky but clever ad campaign. Contact, the photo festival that...

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  • Public Toilet summit

    Yes, there is a conference for every possible topic or vocation out there. The World Toilet Summit is wrapping up today in Belfast, Ireland. One of the...

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  • City Council this week

    There are some interesting things going down at September’s meeting of City Council. Here’s a primer: 1. Video screens on the Gardiner: As the...

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  • City Secretly Supports Car Free Day

    It seemed fitting that I got a parking ticket on the eve of Car Free Day last week – the holiday the City chose not to support this year, inspiring...

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  • Keeping Segways off sidewalks

    Following a resolution by the Toronto Pedestrian Committee in April against allowing Segway scooters on sidewalks, the local distributor started a...

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  • Who’s Driving the City?

    While London is installing solar powered lighting in its busstops and New York is putting thousands of new bus shelters, newsstands and, public washrooms...

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  • Bumvertising

    I was up the other night watching the Daily Show when they did a report on Bumvertising. Benjamin Rogovy, a 22-year-old “entrepreneur”, as...

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