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Party in the streets
This Friday, September 22nd, join Streets Are For People for World Car Free Day. The annual parade begins in Trinity-Bellwoods Park around 4 PM and...
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Bike racks on buses get green light
The expansion of the Rack It and Rocket Program is expected to move forward following a TTC meeting this afternoon. The one-year pilot project was...
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Will the Real Rick Ducharme Please Stand Up?
Speaking with the refreshing candour of a man not interested in sucking up to the boss, former TTC General Manager Rick Ducharme weighed in on the issue...
By James Bow -
New Toronto street signs
Tonight, the City of Toronto has its first public meeting about the proposed new street signs. In the Winter 2006 issue of Spacing, I wrote about the...
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Sao Paulo mayor moves to ban billboards
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes — by David Scrivener While doing my evening news round-up I came across an interesting article on the BBC’s...
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Toronto’s garbage woes answered?
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes I sometimes watch City Council meetings on Rogers. Today I turned it on and found councillors debating whether to buy a...
By Matthew Blackett -
In a Significant City
Local troublemaker and sometimes Spacing contributor Darren O’Donnell is doing a mobile bike thing this Friday and you are invited to join in: Using...
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Garbage Can Fetish: Colonial Roundup
Since the European capitals offer little in the way of culture, architecture and tourist attraction, there has been lots of time to look at some of the...
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Dufferin Grove Park is building a place to pee
Everyone seems to like Dufferin Grove Park, and it’s not hard to understand why. They’ve got outdoor bread ovens, a community garden, snack...
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Power plant plans finalized for port lands
The CBC is reporting that Mayor David Miller and residents near the port lands have lost their battle to stop the construction of a new power plant in the...
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Wanted: a transit visionary for GTA
cross-posted from Spacing Votes by Zach Slootsky Why can’t Toronto find someone with the guts to stand up for transit? This is the question that...
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The lost city of Chernobyl
I stumbled across a site with a batch of images from Chernobyl. Besides being abandoned, the city has also become a haven for graffiti artists. Also worth...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered