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Street food is in the air
I’ve often heard people wonder why it is that the only food you can buy from a street vendor in Toronto is a sausage, when the city is full of...
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Making ad creep work for you: NYC’s Pixelator
Kevin at Newmindspace forwarded this video from New York that shows some folks installing a “pixelator” onto the sidewalk video screens that...
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Cyclists meet to discuss Lake Ontario Park tonight
Sorry about the super-late notice, but I thought I’d post this notice from Tovi Heilbronn, who first brought together a group of cyclists to discuss...
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ROM makes a deal
Back in January I posted about the Royal Ontario Museum‘s attempt to get out of paying the usual fee to the city for the encroachment on public...
By Dylan Reid -
Thursday’s Headlines
• Toronto’s hidden rivers [ Toronto Star ] • Treasure trove in the junction [ Toronto Star ] • DVP opens [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
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Under the tabletop
Some quick pics from yesterday’s Activate the Park II in Butterfield Park at OCAD. Though April, everybody had cold feet and frozen digits after...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: April 5
Blowing off climate change You’d think that Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby has been around long enough to remember a time when society functioned...
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Night Moves
Jamie, over at the always wonderful JB’s Warehouse and Curio Emporium, has posted another of his YouTube finds — this time, a clip from Night...
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The dull blight of sameness
I went to see the street furniture models today at city hall, and and they brought to mind a phrase Jane Jacobs uses, “The Great Blight of...
By Dylan Reid -
Street furniture models on display for 5 days
Spacing just received word that the street furniture models will be on display for four more days (five in total) at City Hall in the west side of the...
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Wednesday’s Headlines
• Businesses blame high taxes for job cuts [ National Post ] • Fewer hot dogs, more samosas by summer? [ Toronto Star ] • Closing homeless...
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Books about Toronto at Archives tonight
Join the City of Toronto Archives and the Archives of Ontario on Wednesday, April 4 to celebrate Archives Awareness week. Hear from some of...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered