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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...
By Leah Sandals -
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...
By Dylan Reid -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Leah Sandals -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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 -
A bike-tastic vision for the waterfront
Paris bike lane pic by Gadl Last week I attended the first public meeting for the Central Waterfront redesign. I am happy to report that the presentations...
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Calling all creative transit fans: come to TTCamp!
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. A self-described “ad-hoc gathering of designers, transit geeks, bloggers, visual artists, tech geeks and cultural...
By James Bow
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered