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Adding art to our street furniture
Ecomedia, the new company that bought out EUCAN and took control of Toronto’s silver box waste bins, introduced an interesting program today that is...
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New issue on newsstands today!
If you haven’t already picked up your issue at Pages Books, you can now grab the Summer 2007 issue of Spacing at any of the stores in Toronto or...
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Cyclist Profile – Jamie the communications director
Cyclist Profiles are a regular feature on I Bike TO. Name / Occupation / Age Jamie Rilett, Director of Communications for the Honourable Donna Cansfield...
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Wednesday’s Headlines
• More dog runs proposed [ Toronto Star ] • Be prepared to pay for new trees [ Toronto Star ] • Sam the Record Man to auction off a piece...
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Sexual Innuendo + Anti-Speed Racing Ads = Safer Pedestrians?
Just came across an interesting approach to reducing speed racing — and making streets safer for pedestrians — from the land downunda. It...
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Spacing invites you to Municipal Mind book launch Wednesday
MUNICIPAL MIND BOOK LAUNCH Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City by Toronto’s Poet Laureate Pier Giorgio Di Cicco When: Wednesday June...
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Presto Farecard: Revolution or Hyperbole?
Images from prestocard.ca Today’s newspapers are fawning over a new farecard (see yesterday’s and today’s headlines posts), to be called...
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Tuesday’s Headlines
• Ont. minister says multi-system transit card a first for Canada [ cbc ] • Fare enough: Single card aims to ease ticket trouble [ Toronto Star...
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City Hall: The executive committee’s take on the climate change action plan
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Here’s what some councillors had to say about the Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan, which...
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Should museums be public spaces, the sequel.
Following plenty of blog chatter last week around the demise of “Five Dollar Fridays†at the ROM (and accompanied by traumatic flashbacks about the...
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Monday’s Headlines
• To revitalize waterfront, first give city hall a shake [ Toronto Star ] • We’re happy to report on a barrel of repairs [ Toronto Star ...
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A sense of scale, a sense of space, a sense of place?
Photo: St. Thomas St, Yorkville A second construction hoarding was erected on St. Thomas St south of Bloor recently, across the street from an existing...
By Robin Chubb
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered