Spacing Toronto

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

Community

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...

By Spacing

Green Space

Wednesday’s Headlines

• Park’s washrooms ‘closed for season’ for 2 years [ Toronto Star ] • York cuts back on Durham incinerator commitments ...

By Julie Yamin

Architecture

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Architecture

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Communication

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Communication

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

Housing

Tuesday’s Headlines

• Upscale home with a downwind problem [ Toronto Star ] • Will Alsop’s Kensington Market is a neighborhood risk [ Toronto Star ] &bull...

By Julie Yamin

Green Space

Toxic secrets in your neighborhood

The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has announced a unique outreach program called Secrecy is Toxic which encourages you to photograph your toxic...

By Matthew Blackett

Bikes

Bike Polo returns every Tuesday

Bike Polo returns! The Royal Society of Adventurology and Streets are for People! invite all those souls interested in an evening of Velocipedic...

By Matthew Blackett

Green Space

Monday’s Headlines

Spacing photo intern Susheela Nirmalan-Nathan documents the faces in Toronto’s graffiti murals on our photoblog Spacing Photos. See it larger here...

By Julie Yamin

Events

Ourtopias at DX

This week at the Design Exchange: OURTOPIAS: Ideal cities and the roles of design in remaking urban space June 14 – 16, 2007 This interdisciplinary...

By Michelle Kasprzak