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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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
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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...
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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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered