Infrastructure
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Dept. of funny infrastructure: Eglinton @ Allen Road
One of the few pieces of cycling infrastructure that the City of Toronto has introduced in the past decade are white dots painted at semi-actuated...
By Sean Marshall -
More than a bridge: Reflections on Bridging the Design Gap
Several weeks ago, the members of Bridging the Design Gap, an informal design charette, posed the question: ‘when is a bridge more than just a...
By Nigel Terpstra -
World Wide Wednesday: NYC for bikes and pedestrians
This week we thought it might be fun to look a little into another city supposedly fighting a “war on the car.” Many of our previous posts...
By Jake Schabas -
Detroit: Street Infrastructure
Detroit has some nice street elements and infrastructure left over from its glory days, much of it worn by time, and also little pockets of innovative new...
By Dylan Reid -
Montreal Monday: Palais de Justice, Guerilla Gardening, the Conduit
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that...
By Jake Schabas -
Mathematical Cities
An interesting article on math and the city was just posted on the New York Times website. Written by Steven Strogatz, a professor of applied Mathematics...
By Jake Schabas -
Montreal Monday: Bixi Bike System, St-Jacques Escarpment, Photo de Jour
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that...
By Jake Schabas -
How not to place a garbage can
This is getting ridiculous. I walked down Queen Street West last week with a couple of colleagues from the Toronto Pedestrian Committee, to find that the...
By Dylan Reid -
City staff discuss the placement of new transit shelters
In October, I wrote a post about how, on narrow sidewalks, the new transit shelters being installed by the city as part of the new street furniture...
By Dylan Reid -
A buried neighbourhood
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing illustrator and contributor Mathew Borrett has joined our blog team and will post occasionally about interesting finds in the...
By Mathew Borrett -
Toronto’s sewers: love them or … ignore them.
Toronto’s sewers have been in the news lately with the discovery of a crack in a massive trunk pipe buried underneath the Don Valley. Should we...
By Shawn Micallef -
Transit Furniture Sign O’ The Times
NEW YORK — The American obesity epidemic always seems most visible in my native Midwest — but evidence of the national widening can be found...
By Liz Clayton