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Your walls can look like a subway platform
Toronto keeps producing interesting homages to our public transit heritage despite the TTC’s total lack of appreciation (or attention)...
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ELECTION 2008: Campaign signs in public spaces
Green Party candidate Ellen Michelson has decided not to put up campaign signs in public spaces throughout her riding of Toronto Centre. “Public space...
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Dalian: Heritage and Spectacle in China
Looking towards Friendship Square. The ball is supposedly supposed to resemble a soccer ball, and lights up in LED animations at night. While I was in...
By Sean Marshall -
Montréal Monday: Stolen sidewalks, suburban exodus, sucky trash, and more
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions...
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Monday’s headlines
• Tories see support growing in Toronto suburbs [ Globe and Mail ] • Political sabotage [ Toronto Sun ] • Vandals target Liberals’...
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NUIT BLANCHE: impressions, part II
I found this year’s Nuit Blanche a little underwhelming, but that could be due to my plan of just winging it. I didn’t have a schedule or...
By Matthew Blackett -
NUIT BLANCHE: impressions
Words on steel drums (Euphemisms for the intimate enemy, Ruark Lewis), Liberty Village For Nuit Blanche this year, I focused on Liberty Village...
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NUIT BLANCHE: Open call for Yeahs & Nahs
So according to Toronto Special Events almost a million folks apparently took in Nuit Blanche last night. At first to me that seemed a little hard to...
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Campus Perspectives: Centennial College’s Progress Campus
Centennial College was the first of 22 colleges opened under then-Education Minister (and later Premier) Bill Davis’s plan to establish an alternate...
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Saturday’s headlines
POLITICS • Hail to Hoy, perhaps last of her kind [ Toronto Star ] • Mayor finally on winning streak, experts say [ National Post ] • Mayor...
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Campus Perspectives: York University’s Keele Street Campus
When I got off the bus at York University‘s Keele Street Campus I found it difficult to find my bearings. I got off at The Pond Road, next to an...
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Nuit Blanche: Behind the scenes with Blinkenlights
I had occasion to be up in one of the City Hall towers today and got a behind the scenes peek of Blinkenlights’ Nuit Blanche installation...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered