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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...
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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...
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Adaptive reuse — Detroit style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSV9BPiwzlk[/youtube] Detroit once had nearly a dozen magnificent 1920s theatres in and around Grand Circus Park...
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When animals fight back
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. In Toronto, raccoons and squirrels are par for the course, but as I learned this summer, just because they’ve adapted...
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Our colourful canopy from a Global News helicopter
Looking west down Queen Street At eleven yesterday morning I learned that Global television wanted to interview me, an arborist, about the late changing...
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The dismantling of Detroit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6m98ZUcH-A[/youtube] The good people of the dETROITfUNK blog have produced a series of videos of their city that...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered