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Sounds of Toronto
A few weeks ago, Spacing asked its readers to help identify the specific smells of the city for an article we’re publishing in the Spring 2008...
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A day in the life of 1975 New York City
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=C-3wza6rnck[/youtube] Despite the wave of happy-urbanism that has gripped a large chunk of the former city of Toronto...
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GIFT GUIDE: Transit Maps of the World book
If you are scrambling for gifts for your urban-obsessed friends, you should consider buying the book “Transit Maps of the World” published by...
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Summerhill holiday lights and the development iceberg they’re attached to
Last year I wrote about the unique LED holiday lights that run along Yonge Street from Dundas Square up to Alexander Street. They’re back this year...
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Tree Tuesday: Horsechestnuts
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
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Montréal Monday — makeout benches, keeping the cars out, and poster-ity
Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and...
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Winter cyclist profile — Cris the Bike Month organizer
Cyclist profiles are part of an ongoing series here on Spacing, and I Bike TO. In celebration of the season — and the City’s Bike Winter...
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Snow storm stories
When I looked out of my apartment window at 8am Sunday morning I could see nothing but white. It scared me, so I went back to bed for a few more hours...
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Time lapse Toronto
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0KohSucx_9o[/youtube] video by Reboot Your Computer I have a weak spot for time lapse videos. It may have to do with...
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Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
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Outside perspective: Toronto grows tall
Back in October we published James Rojas’s mini-essay “Toronto’s Messy Urbanism from the perspective of an Angeleno,” his...
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Trying a new streetscape on Cherry Street
There’s an interesting streetscape experiment in the works for Cherry St. between King and Lakeshore, part of the new West Donlands development...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered