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Spacing Photos back!
Spacing Photos, our daily photoblog of Toronto’s public spaces, has been on hiatus since the municipal election. But as of today, its alive again...
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Toronto’s public spaces in the news
TRANSIT • Can GO get going? [ Toronto Star ] • GO unveils strike plan [ Toronto Star ] • TTC, supervisors charged in noxious gas case ...
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Urban Field Speakers Series: Notions of public time
The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, in association with the Visible City Project, is hosting a series of talks on how art can transform the...
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Wednesday’s mid-afternoon link to articles
Word out of City Hall today is that Astral, Clear Channel, and CBS have submitted their applications for the street furniture program. More to come...
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I get so emotional baby, every time I think of Lat 51°4N Long114°4W
While I’ve been getting emotional at other places on the Wire lately, I find it’s nice to get a little more geographically diverse in emotion...
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Magical skating moment
In medieval European chronicles, the authors would make a special note of years in which the local river froze over, which might happen once a decade...
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Toronto Diaspora
In this photo, taken last September, a proud former Torontonian spreads the royalty-free Gospel of Toronto Iconography in the tourist town of Bugibba...
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Why “Toronto: You belong here” belongs here
Well, dress me up in a three-piece suit and call me a Rotman School of Management professor! According to a Star editorial today by RSM marketing prof...
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Where in the GTA?
In its march of progress, Toronto and the GTA have consumed many small Ontario towns and knitted them together in one big sprawling quilt. There are still...
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Bloggers effect change on the TTC’s website
As many of the regular Spacing Wire readers will know, a few blogs here in Toronto teamed up to gather feedback for the TTC on improving their horrible...
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We are an intersection
There has a lot of discussion about the new Live With Culture ads that are playing in various US alternative weeklies. City Hall on Friday saw a media...
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A tax for artists? Gallery director’s public poster campaign says yes.
In today’s Star, Christopher Hume gives column-inches to Kyle Rae’s push for investment in “the arts.” Interestingly, in...
By Leah Sandals
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered