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Hockey Night in London for Canada Day
One of my closest friends moved to England about six years ago and was surprised to find a large contingent of ex-pat Canadians who came out on Canada Day...
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New Way to Colour the City
Apparently the latest in random city beautification techniques is LED throwies, LED lights taped together with a battery and a magnet which can then be...
By Dylan Reid -
Great street art
You may remember Mark Jenkins from a previous Spacing Wire post (he’s the dude who put lolipop-like things on top of parking metres). He’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland.
Detroit is one of the most striking and well known examples of urban blight and “white flight” in North America. Many, many buildings are...
By Laura Hatcher -
The Nain Rouge – Detroit’s Harbinger of Doom
Cities have legends and Detroit has a fantastic one in the Nain Rouge. French for “red dwarf” or “red gnome,” is a mythical...
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The Bubble Battle
Those crazy kids at Newmindspace are organizing a continent-wide Bubble Battle. Toronto’s event will take place this Sunday (July 2nd) on the steps...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Wealth of Cities
HiMY SYeD is sending reports about the World Urban Forum to the Spacing Wire. Here is his third report. A thousand people are squished in and outside of...
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Ad Blights Park
In Spacing Issue 5, I wrote about how my local park, St. Andrew’s, has recently been revitalized. I went there to eat lunch today, and I was happy...
By Dylan Reid -
EUCAN’T! Megabins are dead!
Yesterday, it became official: the mega-bins are dead. The city planned to leave the existing bins and allow advertising for the next few years until the...
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Public space in the news today
There are a whack of articles in the Star today that relate to public space issues: City councillors gave general approval yesterday for city staff to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Waterfront Waves
There are a few items of interest in the Star today about the Waterfront. Mayor Miller is in Paris this week to begin the city’s bid, which, if...
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Is it cute multiculturalism or scary hooliganism?
A few of us have been complaining about the World Cup celebrations going on around Toronto. Quietly, to ourselves, not wanting to be the inevitable...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered