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2008 Budget In Transit
Transit activist Steve Munro has some very good updates for the 2008 TTC budget over at his website. It will be a very busy time for the TTC, as it not...
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Fred Flintstone & pedal powered cars beware
Today the driver of the artwork titled “Shared Propulsion Car” — arrested on Queen Street on October 25th — appeared in court and...
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Prefix Photo takes a stroll through your consciousness
An event and issue dedicated, in part, to ideas surrounding “walking and consciousness” from the good people at Prefix Photo. What: Release of...
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Tree Tuesday: The travelling redbud
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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Pedestrians crossing mid-block in Toronto: the definitive guide
Last summer, I wrote an article in NOW magazine about pedestrians crossing in the middle of a block, noting that it is in fact legal to do so, so that...
By Dylan Reid -
Spacing subscriptions and copies on newsstands
Just a quick note to let Spacing subscribers know that their copies of the magazine were dropped in the mail today. You should start to see them appear in...
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My Toronto Video Contest Winners
The results are in and we have our winners for the My Toronto Video Contest! Overall, it was a difficult task — how do you sum up Toronto in thirty...
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Report from Pakistan
EDITOR’S NOTE: Toronto playwright (and our Centre for Social Innovation neighbour) Darren O’Donnell is in Pakistan working on a production of...
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Greek pedestrians take direct action
We think there’s a lot to do to make Toronto more pedestrian-friendly, but a recent article in the New York Times about pedestrian problems in...
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Leslie Street Spit Quonset Hut
In today’s Toronto Star Ideas section I wrote about the Quonset Hut found half way out the Leslie Street Spit. It’s a neat architectural...
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Grow up, Globe
Today’s edition of the Globe and Mail has a feature story called “Grow up, cyclists”. It’s a story about bicycle advocacy in...
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My stop is …
It’s great to see and hear the automated stop announcements proliferating rapidly through Toronto’s streetcars. Last week, for the first...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered