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Transit map as a trend chart
I came across this cool map hack — it takes London’s Underground Tokyo’s subway map and uses it as a chart to show the trends of the...
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Calling all Photo/Flickr Bloggers
A call that seems made for you: CALL TO ARTISTS: CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION The Greater Toronto Airports Authority will present The Built Environment...
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Segways banned in Holland
From today’s Toronto Star: Dutch police banned Segways from all public roads, bike paths and walkways as of New Year’s Day, surprising the...
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What’s old should be new again at transit stops
The above image, at Bloor and Jane circa 1937, was used in Spacing‘s Spring/Summer 2006 issue as part of a feature on bus and streetcar shelters...
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Spacing 2007 calendar still available
Now that the holidays are over and you don’t have to buy presents for anyone, you should splurge on yourself: pick up Spacing‘s 2007 calendar...
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Best of 2006: cyclist-driver fight in Kensington
The impact blogs can have on a news story became rather apparent in late January of 2006. Adam Krawesky, a Spacing contributor and one of Toronto’s...
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Terminal Two Twilight
Holiday week required two trips two days in a row to Pearson’s Terminal Two via car to drop off and pick up various current and former Torontonians...
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Best of 2006: intervention
The Best Intervention of 2006 goes to the bench installed, without permission of the City, outside of the Parkdale Library on Queen Street West. In...
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Best of 2006: lists from around the continent
Did you know that for the first time in North America there are more poor residents of suburbs than central cities? Or that America’s older...
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Best of 2006: graffiti
Graffiti has become the wallpaper of urban life as much of it tends to blend into the city landscape. But a creative person has been doing some fabulous...
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Spacing in the media today
Both Shawn Micallef (Spacing associate editor) and Matthew Blackett (Spacing publisher and creative director) were featured in the weekend papers...
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Best of 2006: Tree Pit Liberation
All over Toronto in 2006 people and businesses have been removing the cement covers that strangle our street trees, turning that little patch of uncovered...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered