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Useful billboards
Ad creep is an obivous concern for us folks at Spacing, but there are instances when some good can come from it. Take the California community of...
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Mis-Guided
Mis-Guide is a book and website created by Wrights & Sites, a group of four UK based artists. Mis-Guide is a guide book that can be used in any city...
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BBC Radio: “Making Cities Work”
BBC World Service radio has an interesting series called “Making Cities Work“, available for listening in streaming or downloadable formats...
By Dylan Reid -
A Walk in the Park
David Gallaugher, a student at the Dalhousie School of Architecture in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has created a grass-lined wheel to simulate an eternal lawn...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Chicagoland II
We’re done with Chicago as of this morning. It was nice, and we’ll go back. If you go, and you only have one thing to do, take a tour with the...
By Shawn Micallef -
…the 77B on the TTC!
Two weeks ago we posted the “Romantic Traffic” video by the Spoons that was filmed on the TTC subway lines. Today, we found “The Spadina...
By Matthew Blackett -
Final Month of Transmedia :29:59
July is the final month of art content curated by Michelle Kasprzak and Michael Alstad on the pedestrian-level billboard in Dundas Square. The end of the...
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Italy!
The above photo was taken at the corner of St. Clair and Dufferin around midnight the day Italy advanced to the World Cup final. I can only imagine how...
By Matthew Blackett -
Collection of articles
NOW has a few good stories in their current issue. 1. Street furniture debate at City Hall “It’s too early to say whether the forthcoming...
By Matthew Blackett -
The dirt on graffiti
Is it still graffiti if all you’re doing is cleaning away dirt? Street artist Paul Curtis (aka Moose) has been messing with the minds of city...
By Matthew Blackett -
More Parks, Less Parking
This is a picture of me, lounging on the sod of the newest park in town. It says, “Streets are for People†just above the windshield. This...
By Tammy Thorne -
Chicagoland
We arrived in Chicago on Wednesday. Apart from everything being remarkable, big and American, they call the whole thing, suburbs and all, Chicagoland...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered