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Activate the Park II
For the second year in a row, our first-year interaction design students at the Ontario College of Art and Design have been charged with the task of...
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Tuesday’s Headlines
• Designer signs of the times [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto to levy new tax on trash [ Globe and Mail ] • The pain of being a second city ...
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Growing Power comes to Toronto
CITY BUILDER IN RESIDENCE Growing Power from Milwaukee and Chicago Tuesday April 3rd, 7pm Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto 2 Sussex Ave., (corner of...
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How the Beaches deal with graffiti
Last summer I worked down at Leuty Station in the Beaches. One morning I showed up for work and noticed that someone had tagged the historical lifeguard...
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Most comments in March: discuss amongst yourselves
Each month, Spacing compiles the posts that have generated the most discussion. The number in brackets represents the number of comments of that specific...
By Julie Yamin -
A museum about Toronto finally coming to life?
The Toronto museum, an idea that has been bantied about for years, seems to have found a home: Toronto’s future museum celebrating the city’s...
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Homeless Signs
Those who read city blogs like BlogTO and various urban-minded Flickr feeds may have seen photos of a series of official looking signs around town that...
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Monday’s Headlines
• Lookouts missed at blind spot [ Toronto Star ] • Let panel do its job in fixing waterfront [ Toronto Star ] • ‘Every tree that...
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Postcards from the edge
These fine postcards of Toronto were purchased yesterday at Honest Eds. They were printed by an Italian company in 1976, when Toronto was a smaller place...
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Pedestrian Sundays expand
The successful Kensington Market Pedestrian Sundays are expanding to other neighbourhoods this year. Both Baldwin Street Village and Mirvish Village (on...
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Pedestrian signals next target of outdoor advertising?
Bike Toronto has just broken the news of an April 1 initiative at city hall to raise revenue by selling advertising space in the unused part of pedestrian...
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The forgotten other half of Toronto’s Bike Plan
One of the key strategies for a greener and cleaner Toronto proposed in the City’s new clean air plan, Change is in the Air, is to complete the...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered