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A Traditional Toronto Thanksgiving
A few of us spent a day or two this past weekend giving into tradition and doing what so many Canadians have done for years on Thanksgiving: we went to...
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The public square we never got
Stephen Otto, one of the board members of the Friends of Fort York, slipped a print-out under Spacing’s office door a few weeks ago. It was the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Tree Tuesday: Guerilla gardening
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests (LEAF) will post a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project...
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A good week for walking
The Walk21 conference last week got remarkable, and entirely unexpected, media coverage. In fact, I suspect pedestrian issues got more media coverage than...
By Dylan Reid -
Rogers thinks the sidewalk is my space
Glad to see communications giant Rogers is into graffiti. If they feel it’s appropriate to do this to a public sidewalk, is it okay for any of us to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Bike lane countdown 2007
This photo was taken by Martin Koob at the City’s cycling consultation session in July. A summary of that consultation can be found here. Remember...
By Tammy Thorne -
Walk21: Wayfinding
I have a particular interest in the idea of pedestrian maps, and co-created one for the now-finished Walking Life exhibition (I hope to post an electronic...
By Dylan Reid -
Giambrone change of heart
The outcry over the City Council’s approval to allow the Toronto Parking Authority to expropriate the Matador so that they can turn it into a...
By Dale Duncan -
To expand or not to expand
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Yesterday, before the city’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee discussed a report (PDF) detailing many small...
By Dale Duncan -
Less than a week until provincial election
There is less than a week before we go to the polls and elect our next provincial government and decide the future of how we elect a government. Spacing...
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Walk21: Public health and urban design
Today’s Walk21 post brings you some findings from a fascinating session on the relationship between public health and urban design as they affect...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto sets up camp in New York
Last year at the first Nuit Blanche — the one where people only complained about the rain — you may remember seeing Thom Sokoloski’s The...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered