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ROM tries to move hot dog vendors “blocking Crystal view”
I just returned from a museums conference in Ottawa and was just sorting through my notes to post soon on a few of the surprisingly positive public space...
By Leah Sandals -
Voice of the Tube Fired
With the recent introduction of the pleasant automated voice announcing TTC stops, it is interesting to read that the voice actor behind the familiar...
By Shawn Micallef -
Cellphones, Ad Screens and TTC Service Updates
It is recognized by almost all that the TTC website is badly due for a redesign, and supposedly this will finally take place next year, perhaps bringing...
By Sean Marshall -
Taddle Creek Tenth Anniversary
While we at Spacing are about to launch our 10th issue next week, the literary magazine named after one of Toronto’s lost creeks is celebrating...
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Tree Tuesday: Nature in the cracks
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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BrrrBikeFriday!
This Friday is BikeFriday, the frozen edition. Actually, it is not very cold at all. This Friday is expected to be a balmy 2 degrees Celsius. So get out...
By Tammy Thorne -
Where NYC manhole covers come from
Yesterday’s New York Times had a piece (and a neat audio slide show) on the the origin of that city’s manhole covers. Foreign worker safety is...
By Shawn Micallef -
Sponsor a Councillor
Today’s Executive Committee agenda is stacked. There’s the capital budget, union station revitalization, increased funding to the lobbyist...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Cities & Ottawa
The Star’s business columnist David Olive wrote a piece about the extreme antipathy in Canada directed towards cities on Saturday: Outside Canada...
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Kensington Pedestrian Sundays help clear the air
We’re launching Spacing’s “green” issue in a week, on Monday Dec. 3. To give our readers a taste of the kind of questions...
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Walking on Thin Ice — 1981 New York
Just after John was shot in 1980, Yoko Ono made this video for her song Walking on Thin Ice. It was the last the song Lennon worked on and he was holding...
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Ottawa is 1978
I took the train to Ottawa a few weeks ago, a city I’ve only visited on two other occasions (once to write a story about the G20 Summit in November...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered