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Toronto can and must set up an alternative to the OMB
Christopher Hume, interviewing former Toronto chief planner Paul Bedford, has written one of the best columns I’ve seen so far about the issue of...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: Jan. 25, 2007
Spacing‘s managing editor Dale Duncan writes a weekly column for Eye Weekly focused on City Hall. Each week we’ll post her columns on the...
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Indie Mag Revolution in Eye Weekly
This week’s cover story on Eye Weekly talks about the challenges faced by small magazine publishers, including Spacing (there’s Biz Manager...
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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...
By Robin Chubb -
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...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered