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Making the Streets Safe for Walkers (slowly)
Two interesting pedestrian initiatives are coming to the Works Committee of City Council on Monday, Sept. 11. The first is a proposal to extend the...
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Monarchs everywhere!
Monarchs, monarchs, everywhere! From today’s Star: They’re suddenly everywhere — majestic black and orange butterflies fluttering in...
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Subway Navigator
I was recently forwarded the Subway Navigator site which has a number of international cities’ subway maps and can help you figure out how to get...
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City Surfing
City Surf is a new Toronto based company selling cool downloadable audio tours of some of our more famous neighbourhoods. For $9.99, the savvy traveller...
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Artful Street Furniture
Imagine a city where street furniture is designed by psychiatric survivors and artists. It’s a far cry from a city with fully harmonized street...
By Tammy Thorne -
Mothership
Being in Edinburgh feels a bit like hanging out in Toronto’s mothership — the place where all the names we see everyday came from (but with...
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Tuesday’s headlines
• Follow the leader game just unfair to challengers: Royson James has a good piece in the Star today about the upcoming city election...
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SPACING: new issue in two weeks!
September is a busy month for Spacing. We have a few announcements to make (which you may want to mark down in your calendar). 1. New issue of Spacing! In...
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Popular August posts on the Spacing Wire
In mid-March of 2006 we decided to activate our comments section to let Spacing Wire readers have their say, too. We’ve been very happy with the...
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Queen and Portland
The large parking lot at Portland between Queen West and Richmond is one of the last major undeveloped sections of Queen Street West, and as such holds...
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New Pedestrian Space, Montreal
This attractive little space is the result of the pedestrian-oriented rebuilding of Bernard Street, a minor mixed commercial/residential street in...
By Dylan Reid -
Every station club
Over at Torontoist, David Topping has been posting an image every day, for 69 days, of a Toronto subway station, and today is the final day of the...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered