Spacing Toronto

Utility poles and free speech

In today’s Toronto Star, writer Murray Whyte examines the current state of postering in the city and discovers that the corporate advertisers are...

By Spacing

Communication

Pillow Fight!

Thanks to Jacqueline Treloar for sending along some pics from today’s Pillow Fight hosted by Newmindspace. Check out the hundreds of photos on...

By Matthew Blackett

Communication

Different kinds of gateways

I was flipping through the photoblog of Rannie Turingan and stumbled upon this great graffiti piece. It reminded me of the short article I wrote in the...

By Matthew Blackett

Green Space

Saturday’s headline

• Inside City Hall: can old rivals be friends? [ Globe and Mail ] • Montreal, Toronto say ‘Oui” to co-operation [ Toronto Star ...

By Matthew Blackett

Features

Billboard tax debate

Public space activist Dave Meslin wrote an interesting article in NOW magazine this week about the issue of taxing advertising billboards. The article was...

By Dylan Reid

Transit

San Francisco’s port lands redevelopment

I was in San Francisco just over a week ago, for the first time. One of the many things I did was try out the new T-Third Street light rail line, which...

By Sean Marshall

Streetscape

Obsessing about sidewalk stamps

Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett has some serious infrastructure fetishes. He wrote about his obsession with sidewalk stamps in Spacing’s first...

By Spacing

Bikes

Toronto Cyclist Profile: Sami the photographer

In the lead up to, and during, Bike Week this year I will be featuring some cyclist profiles. These will be profiles of regular people who ride bikes in...

By Tammy Thorne

Events

Friday’s Headlines

• GO users VIPs on DVP [ Toronto Star ] • Tax on coffee cups won’t fly: Tim Hortons [ Toronto Star ] • Haiku that fit/ with High Park...

By Julie Yamin

Communication

Missing Plaque Project: Postering as a historical proclamation

Inasmuch as history is supposed to be rooted in objectively recorded facts, such accounts often overlook the multi-layered texture of people’s lives...

By Sarah Magwood

Politics

Dale Duncan at City Hall: May 10

You can dance if you want to (but take your aggression inside) Adam Vaughan is not trying to ban dancing in the city. He’s quick to point this out...

By Dale Duncan

Bikes

Goldhawk Live talks bikes tonight

Goldhawk Live focuses on cycling tonight from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Rogers Television’s local cable channel — channel 10. The guests on the...

By Tammy Thorne