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The scorched-earth reality of new councillors
Two weeks ago on our Spacing Votes blog, Karen MacKenzie wrote about the transition process faced by newly elected councillors. The article touched on the...
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Articles on bike art, city hall stuff, farmer’s market, and a cool bridge
Here are a few articles from the weekend that are wroth exploring if you haven’t already. Art to hold your eye, and your bike [Globe and Mail]...
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To Suburbia
Today’s National Post Toronto Magazine has a series of 5 articles on evolving neighbourhoods in the city, including the Oakwood neighbourhood north...
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Saturday, Saturday: A Public Art Rapper’s Delight
So I’ve been trying to change the words to Sugar Hill Gang’s Classic “Rapper’s Delight” so that it goes “Public Art...
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Whose space is public space?
Jerrold Litwinenko at BlogTO had a good post yesterday on public space surveillance, and the comment section has a good debate going. Last week, when a...
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Friday’s mid-afternoon links to run out the day
Kensington Market declared national historic site [National Post]: Kensington Market, that neighbourhood that has survived for 80 years as a good place to...
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NYC to Illegal Ads: Drop Dead
Often when discussing that perhaps ads don’t belong on every surface of our city there are usually folks who say that Toronto needs ads-a-plenty and...
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Eye’s on the street
While NOW’s Mike Smith was spending the week thinking about Scarborough (see post below), Eye Weekly’s Chris Bilton took Mayor David...
By Dale Duncan -
Scarborough in the NOW
NOW city hall reporter (and Spacing contributor) Mike Smith looks at the issues facing the former municipality of Scarborough over the next four years...
By Dale Duncan -
City Council about to take flight
The new city council will be unveiled for us next week, and we’ll get to see who’ll be pushing the agenda forward for the newly re-elected...
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Dovercourt tree tour and community bonfire
This Saturday, December 2 at 1:00p.m., arborist about town and Spacing contributor Todd Irvine of LEAF and local tree advocate Andrea Dawber of GreenHere...
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Goodbye Stump (Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em)
The scene Monday in front of Scotiabank Centre was loud. The Murray Demolition company (I always wonder what the omnipresent Toronto demolisher Murray...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered