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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...
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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 -
Everything positive…riding a bike
“Everything positive in my life is associated with riding a bike.” That’s what cyclist Kevin Wallace says on the website of his bike...
By Tammy Thorne -
Billboard liberation
Nothing better than a liberated billboard to celebrate our first anniversary. This piece was done by Fauxreel. It was up recently for 43 hours at Spadina...
By Matthew Blackett -
The TTC is at it again…
Sigh. The marketing geek in me keeps holding out for the TTC to come up with smart and effective self-promotion and marketing campaigns. Their new...
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Thunder Bay Discussion
The Wire post is two months old, but there’s a fairly active discussion going on about Toronto’s obligation, or lack of, to buy subway trains...
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MTV Canada goes public (space)
If you have cable and can receive MTV Canada signals, you should check out MTV Live tonight (6-7pm, channel 59 with Rogers). They will be broadcasting a...
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SPACING: CN Tower anniversary & the highest free-standing poster
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the CN Tower. For many of us it is just part of the city’s skyline, but it dramatically remade the image of this...
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Deer Herd coming to Toronto (herd needed)
As a part of WADE 2006, Montreal artist Hazel Meyer and her project DEERHEADS are coming to Toronto, July 8th & 9th. DEERHEADS is a participatory...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered