Green Space
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The outdoors helps your brain, kids!
A decent article from Orion on kids who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and how green spaces can help their affliction. It seems that...
By Matthew Blackett -
Saturday: De-Fencing in the Annex!
On Saturday August the 6th, the Downtown De-Fence Project will be liberating eight houses from the strangulation of their rusting, isolating chain link...
By Dave Meslin -
Best Public Spaces in the World
The Project for Public Spaces, a non-profit out of NYC that helps communities and cities build smart public spaces, has an interesting feature on their...
By Matthew Blackett -
Reading Toronto Spits
Guest writer Chris Thomaidis has put up a series of posts on the Reading Toronto blog about the Leslie Street Spit/Tommy Thompson Park. He talks about the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Public space Saturday
The Globe and Mail had a bunch of interesting articles today. The first article was about the number of stray cats running around in our alleys. Some say...
By Matthew Blackett -
This just in: Gridlock is Bad
John Tory just announced the Ontario Conservative initiative to solve our Gridlock problem. They’ve set up this website, as a place where you can...
By Shawn Micallef -
Book launch tonight!
Our friends at the Toronto Public Space Committee are presenting a book launch tonight starting at 7:30pm at the Victory Cafe (on Markham, a block west of...
By Matthew Blackett -
NOW takes on smog
Last week NOW ran an article on the top 10 things Toronto can do to fight smog in the city. The ideas may be unrealistic in the current political climate...
By Matthew Blackett -
Get out of the city in the city
Spacing managing editor Dale Duncan wrote the cover story for Eye Weekly this week, “Urban Escape: how to get away from the concrete grind without...
By Matthew Blackett -
Get Lost
The Village Voice reviews A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. We live in an increasingly standardized environment, bouncing from one branch...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Generating An Alternative Night-Time Mobility
Saturday, July 16th @ 10:00PM Meeting points @ Mercer Union (37 Lisgar Street) and Front Street, in front of Union Station Explore Toronto’s public...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Dufferin Grove + Little Malta
Spacing editor and flaneur Shawn Micallef wrote the City article for Eye this week. And a nice little piece on Dufferin Grove in the “Wandering...
By Matthew Blackett