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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Amnesty International Bus Shelter Ads
An interesting series of ads for Amnesty International (via singer.to). They seem to have taken pictures of the background, did some photoshop, and...
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Toronto, measured in feet
Nicholas Hune-Brown and J. Graham Lee write in the Toronto Star about measuring the space of the city and its sprawl by walking across it. Should be a...
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Slow Road Movement
In today’s NYTimes magazine there’s a nice article on the US Interstate system. It’s 50 years old, and is in need of a re-think while...
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The centre of the public space movement
If you go to Google’s website you can do a search on trends. We punched in “public space” to see which cities in the world had...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered