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Southern Man vs. Fugees
At first glance you could file this next story with those comic tales Canadians like to share about how weird and out-of-whack America can get —...
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Where Dupont meets Dundas meets Annette
This enigmatic and forlorn stairway cuts through the retaining wall of the railway overpass crossing Dupont Street where it meets Dundas Street West and...
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London, England pedestrian initiatives
Pedestrian cross in Kensington, London, England. – – – – – – – – As Toronto begins to work on creating a...
By Dylan Reid -
Windsor — heartbreaking city, now blogged
Most people have difficult relationships with their hometown. There’s a reason you left, but you still probably have a certain amount of love for...
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City of Lights
Spacing Wire readers might enjoy this remarkable 360-degree image of Paris at night (scroll horizontally to see the whole thing). You can see many of the...
By Dylan Reid -
Civic Bandwidth — Wireless Nights
The civic-minded nerds and hackers of Wireless Toronto are hosting an evening at their newest hotspot, Lot 16, on Tuesday and invite anybody with an...
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Have a book, leave a book. Need a book, take a book.
Though it would surely strike fear in the heart of illegal-newspaper-box-hating Mayor David Miller, a recent trip to Chicago witnessed an act of public...
By Liz Clayton -
A little history on the TTC’s Timeline service
Many of our readers have suggested that the TTC go back to providing a phone number attached to a transit stop. When you called the number, an automated...
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Sunday Scene — City Talk at Power Plant
There is an interesting talk at the Power Plant on Sunday, part of the We Can Do This Now Toronto-centric exhibition (go just to check out Luis...
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Sneak a peak at (what might be) Lake Ontario Park
Last night I went to the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation’s Lake Ontario Park Public Forum expecting the half-full room of journalists...
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Can Bike Share live again?
Dale Duncan, Spacing’s managing editor, wrote about Bike Share in this week’s Eye Weekly. In December, the Community Bicycle Network (CBN)...
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“Public space protection” — but for which “public”?
I had a bit of a disturbing experience yesterday as I was running errands downtown. First, I was glad to see the south Queen sidewalk east of University...
By Leah Sandals
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered