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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...
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Road Trip: Morgantown, West Virginia
Beechurst PRT Station with WVU Downtown Campus behind On a recent road trip to Pittsburgh, I decided to drive an hour south and a bit to cross the...
By Sean Marshall -
Thursday’s headlines
• The great downtown/suburbs snow-clearing divide [ National Post ] • Light-rail plan favoured over Yonge line extension [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
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Gift Guide: Toronto’s Distillery District — History by the Lake
A new book by Toronto archivist and historian Sally Gibson explores the Distillery District — “History by the Lake” — from its...
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Sidewalk ploughed!
When I got to Queen Street West around Spadina on my way to work this morning, I discovered a pleasant surprise — a long stretch of the sidewalk had...
By Dylan Reid -
Wednesday’s headlines
• City eyes rumble strips to protect bicyclists [ Toronto Star ] • Tiff names Its Top 10 Canadian Films [ National Post ] • The city above...
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Gift Guide: Spacing’s holiday gift packs
For the fourth year in a row, Spacing is offering a unique product that almost no other magazine offers. We take the three issues of Spacing published in...
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Ottawa transit strike brings city to a standstill
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing asked Ottawa resident and University of Ottawa geography student David McClelland to give Spacing Toronto readers a...
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More fifth anniversary pictures!
Check out some more photos from Spacings fifth anniversary/release party last week. These candid photos were taken by Spacing’s good friend Yvonne...
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Gift Guide: City Walks – Toronto
City Walks: Toronto is a nicely-designed collection of 50 solid cards in an attractive box. Each compact card (4-1/16 x 5-5/8) has on one side a map with...
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Tuesday’s headlines
• Metrolinx to fasttrack airport link [ Toronto Star] • Vaughan Mayor stands her ground [ National Post ] • TTC wait times on texts...
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Lake Ontario and the signs that regulate our relationship with it
A Sunday walk along a choppy Lake Ontario to deserted HtO Park yesterday presented little distraction from reading the many signs in the Harbourfront...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered