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New Fan-Produced Google TTC Map
We are constantly impressed by the labours of love the Toronto Transit Commission brings out of its fans, but we were totally blown away by this transit...
By James Bow -
Books for public space lovers to give and receive
Hark, what’s that earth-shaking cacophany echoing past yonder half-finished condo developments and through the halls of municipal committee...
By Leah Sandals -
Public Art for Sleepwalkers
Nuit Blanche is well over, but there’s a smaller-scale project launching tonight that similarly takes aim at the late-night public-art-viewing...
By Leah Sandals -
Toronto artstravaganza: t’aint public, but still worth seeing
The Power Plant’s fall show, all about documenting and reinforcing the aura of the fabled Cologne, Germany, art scene of the 1980s, was a bit...
By Leah Sandals -
Holy Public Dancing Interventions, Batman!
Gillian Wearing, what have you wrought? Ever since you decided to spontaneously dance in a shopping mall back in 1994, and record it for a video piece...
By Leah Sandals -
BARBER: Serious Land Dispute on Islands Brewing
John Barber’s column (registered users or Google News search) in The Globe & Mail today discusses the increasing volume of a voice that has been...
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More high-occupancy lanes coming to highways
The Toronto Star is reporting today that the Ontario government will announce major plans to expand the high-occupancy vehicle lanes. In early 2007, the...
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Art Attack Meeting Tonight @ Metro Hall
I know some of you want to piledrive the Henry Moore sculpture in Nathan Phillips Square, but you’re going to have to save that for another day...
By Leah Sandals -
Regent Park Take I
The folks at Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre have been around since 1989 as a not-for-profit organization that gets area kids involved in media...
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Regent Park Revitalization Screening Thursday Night
Revitalization is a word that sure sounds good; but is the phenomenon the city’s calling “revitalization” over at Regent Park really a...
By Leah Sandals -
Chainlink Beautiful?
The new “Bennet Gates” at the south end of Philosopher’s Walk on the University of Toronto campus recently won a “Clean and...
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Thimble art starts to measure up
Spacing‘s very own Shawn Micallef had a piece about the thimble public art piece found at the northeast corner of Richmond and Spadina in the...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered