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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...
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Fold-Out Guide to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage
The City of Toronto’s Heritage Preservation Services publishes a really attractive fold-out guide map to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage...
By Dylan Reid -
PS Kensington on Sunday
Tomorrow is the second Pedestrian Sunday Kensington of the year. It starts at 1pm and goes to 7pm (and Augusta is closed to 10pm). Spacing will be there...
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Kudos: Pedestrian Countdown Conversion
We give the City a lot of grief, often for good reason, so I think it is important to acknowledge when the City does something well. Recently, the city...
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Under Bathurst Bridge
In the most recent issue of Spacing, David Fontaine wrote about the view of Fort York from under the Bathurst Street Bridge, the closest approximation of...
By Dylan Reid -
Montreal Considers a Pedestrian Charter
The City of Montreal is considering adopting a Pedestrian Charter (Toronto was the first North American city to adopt one, in 2002). Unlike...
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Howard Moscoe a headline maker
Over the last few weeks, more ink has been spilled about Howard Moscoe than most city councillors receive in a term. Check out the recent articles: the...
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Spirit of ’76: CN Tower is old, but still very sexy
This week in the Airstream I recorded a fellow who was a teen back in ’76 living in an apartment around Eglinton and Weston. He remembered watching...
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Sustainable City or Sustainable Illusion?
HiMY SYeD is sending daily reports from the World Urban Forum to the Spacing Wire. Here is his second report. 7:43 am and it is standing room only at...
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The Impacts of Traffic on Health
The City of Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health released a damning report in March on “The Impacts of Traffic on Health”. The report is...
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People Walking 2006
Walking down Bloor on Saturday night after seeing A Prairie Home Companion at the Cumberland (go see this wonderful movie, Meryl Streep can totally sing)...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered