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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...
By Dylan Reid -
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...
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Ootes doesn’t like bikes
Okay, this isn’t exactly a breaking news headline, I admit, (in fact, it could be called an understatement) but check out the latest anti-cycling...
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Streets to Screens: August 31
STREETS TO SCREENS Toronto Public Space Committee fundraiser The Mayor of Tent City (Canada, 2005 • 53min) Director: Rosalie Bellefontaine &bull...
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Croft Street Reborn
A year ago, I went on a walking tour of the Harbord Village area that ended at Croft Street, an utterly charming, unconventional laneway that was in the...
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Montreal Cycling
On my recent trip to Montreal, I found the city’s cycling projects very interesting. Of course, Montreal cyclists will tell you they have many...
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“Port Authority Wins”?
John Barber’s column in the Globe today betrays a sense of defeat about the Island Airport issue. You can find it in the Print edition of the paper...
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Building Neighbourhoods along with Subways
Urban consultant and former councillor Richard Gilbert has a very interesting op-ed in the Star today arguing that each of the proposed new subway...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered