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Lazy days of summer at Spacing
Almost everyone who contributes to the Spacing Wire is on, or is going on, vacation over the next month. The destinations include Victoria BC, Ontario...
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Flat Tire Fridays are No Fun
Being a nine-to-fiver I have come to, somewhat unnaturally, appreciate the arrival of Friday. This Friday, however, is not up to snuff. I got a flat tire...
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Infrastucture art
I was forwarded an interesting art exhibit called Safe Design sponsored by Safety Issues magazine that took place at the MoMA in New York last fall. A few...
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Bike Lockers in T.O.
The City of Toronto has launched its Bicycle Locker Pilot Project. You can now rent a locker for 10 dollars, per month for a minimum four-month term at...
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Withrow Potluck Aug 4
Local TTC booster and provocateur Sean Learner is shifting focus briefly to do something extremely local and hold a potluck near his house in Withrow Park...
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Quay to the City
It looks like we can get ready for our first taste of a revitalized central Waterfront. As reported before, Queen’s Quay West from Spadina to York...
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Today’s headlines
Ryerson’s new Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre for Studies in Community Health • Dirty beaches spark debate in Ajax [ Toronto Star ] • Hume...
By Matthew Blackett -
Vacant Lots: Just Add Water
Spacing’s public art editor Leah Sandals has been a participant in the Vacant Lots exhibition that is running out of the Toronto Free Gallery...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Urban Etiquette Handbook
Spacing has a feature in the magazine called the Manners Duck. Our resident etiquette expert dishes out what acts are acceptable (or not) while...
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Chalk mapping Queen West
From the fellow who brought us the cute little zine of the Bloor Viaduct during the Apocolypse! Paul Dotey maps the Queen West neighbourhood tonight at...
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The Dry Docks
There was an epic length article a few years ago in Toronto Life that focused on The Docks and owner Jerry Sprackman, a man who never met a zoning...
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Today’s public space headlines
BB King at the rebuilt Colonial Tavern, 1977 • City’s oldest firehall show its age [ Globe and Mail ] • Construction begins on new...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered