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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...
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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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
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Spacing Wire First Anniversary
The Spacing Wire celebrates its first anniversary today. It has been exciting to go from a twice a year publication to a daily news and commentary feed...
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Spoons take over Bloor station
Does anyone remember The Spoons video “Romantic Traffic”? It was filmed at Bloor and Sheppard stations. Check out the old red rockets and the...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered