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Kiosks and public life in Malta
I’ve been walking around Malta for a week now, and though I’ve been here a bunch of times, I’m always struck but how public life is...
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Memorial ride Friday for cyclist killed on Bayview
As many will already know, a(nother) cyclist was killed Friday, June 8th, on Bayview Avenue when he was hit by a truck. The official police report can be...
By Tammy Thorne -
Thursday’s Headlines
• Developer ordered to clean up site used to dump trash, sewage [ Toronto Star ] • Where our garbage will go [ Toronto Star ] • Residents...
By Julie Yamin -
Spacing wins at Canadian Society of Magazine Editors’ awards!
On Wednesday night Spacing was happy to walk away with two terrific awards from the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors — one for 2007 Small...
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Graffiti Portraits: June 13th
Spacing photo intern Susheela Nirmalan-Nathan documents the faces in Toronto’s graffiti murals on our photoblog Spacing Photos. See it larger here.
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Postcard image of Toronto
Over the weekend, Mark Medley had an article in the National Post that asked a variety of city thinkers (including myself) what the impact the opening of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Spacing to help launch Poet Laureate’s book Municipal Mind
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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Wednesday’s Headlines
• Park’s washrooms ‘closed for season’ for 2 years [ Toronto Star ] • York cuts back on Durham incinerator commitments ...
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Sam The Record Man’s neon sign to be auctioned
The folks at Torontoist just posted this: Sam The Record Man’s contents are going to be auctioned off, including the neon signs, on Wednesday, June...
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The potential of a wall: 3D murals
I’m not sure where these murals are located, but I like them a lot. UPDATE: A commenter discovered that the murals are from Chinco and Los Gatos...
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Park your tent
We’ve previously written about Park(ing), a fun project out of Los Angeles San Francisco that reclaims parking spots by placing sods of grass and a...
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Graffiti Portraits: June 12th
Spacing photo intern Susheela Nirmalan-Nathan documents the faces in Toronto’s graffiti murals on our photoblog Spacing Photos. See it larger here.
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered