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CP24 — Everywhere, even the sidewalk
I like CP24. It’s a useful channel, and does some good local features. I can even imagine that in rare instances, for a breaking news story on a...
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Million dollar building
A few months back a website gained notoriety for selling tiny pieces of it’s homepage in a crass attempt to raise $1 million. The Sandberg Institute...
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Skateboards and falcons
As Dylan Reid posted a few days ago, there is a bit of a community uproar in Etobicoke’s New Toronto neighbourhood. It seems residents don’t...
By Matthew Blackett -
A Roar
I was walking home through Hart House Circle, in the heart of the largely-deserted University of Toronto. There were not a lot of people around. I had...
By Dylan Reid -
Oh Canada
Dominion Day Weekend was spent in dear Windsor, a most American of a hometown that tends to hide in cars and behind air-conditioned walls to escape the...
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Kingdom of bicycles on a highway to hell?
The New York Times magazine had a very scary article this weekend on the rise of car culture in China. Here are just a couple of interesting bits of...
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One Year of Spacing Photos
Last week, we celebrated the first anniversary of the Spacing Wire, so it would be a shame to overlook Spacing.ca’s other daily feature Spacing...
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Working Towards A Clean and Beautiful Waterfront
Last night I was at Cherry Beach watching the fireworks and lamenting the fact that I hadn’t brought a bathing suit to hop in the lake. When I told...
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Walking Philosophy
Pedestrians will take the shortest available route where they need to go. And there’s really no reason why they shouldn’t be able...
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Billboards in the city
Today’s Globe and Mail has an article about video billboards and the effect they have on drivers. From Dr. Gridlock’s column today...
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Birds vs. Boards and Other News
TTC streetcars are flying little Canadian flags off their back wires this weekend. I find this a charming little touch. NOW has an interesting article...
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The new suburbia
Robert Ouellette, the editor of Reading Toronto, also writes for the National Post and had a good article in yesterday’s paper about the development...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered