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LORINC: Is there an app to help Ford’s leadership skills?
Is there an app that would help Mayor Rob Ford figure out the transit file? Late Friday afternoon, the mayor’s office leaked the news that the city’s 2011...
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Monday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Toronto’s surplus makes Rob Ford a happy man [Globe & Mail] • Fords take aim at top doc [NOW] • Levy: Ford cuts the waste [The Sun] • Gee...
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Hot Docs: Tchoupitoulas
Tchoupitoulas is about what happens in a city at night: its quirks, its personalities, its sounds. It’s about what happens in New Orleans specifically, a...
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Hot Docs: The Field of Magic
The Field of Magic is the kind of documentary that rarely gets made today. Taking the now generally unpopular observational approach, it offers a raw...
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Spacing Saturday: Large Urban Parks, Urban Alleyways and Transit Funding
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. As cities around...
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Creative Mapping Contest deadline on Monday!
Spacing magazine presents the CREATIVE MAPPING CONTEST Do you love maps? Are you an illustrator, graphic designer, or visual storyteller? Spacing wants...
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STRAPHANGER: The Toronto tragedy
This week, Spacing presents five excerpts from Straphanger, the new book by Montreal-based author Taras Grescoe. The book examines the success stories...
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Urban Planet: Detroit’s 40 Square Miles of Vacant Land
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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STREET SCENE: West of Spadina
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Hot Docs: Dragan Wende – West Berlin
Dragan Wende – West Berlin follows the documentary’s cinematographer and writer, Vuk Maksimovic, as he travels to West Berlin to meet his legendary uncle...
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Sim City: Bus Shelters & International Buisness
Bus transit is big in Spacington. The city has adopted new lines, extended a few, and created a multi-city connection. Not bad, eh? Still not great. The...
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Friday’s headlines
CITY HALL • Councillor rallies support for double-edged subway relief plan [The Star] • Rookie councillor to put road tolls, regional sales tax before...
By Noah van der Laan
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered