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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)...
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Cycling Goes Suburbs
Encouraging news — the City of Markham is developing a cycling plan, including transportation as well as recreation. And it’s going to be...
By Dylan Reid -
Flower Power
One of the best things about cycling in the city — besides it being fast, cheap, healthful, environmentally friendly, freeing and fun — is...
By Tammy Thorne -
World Urban Forum – Day One
HiMY SYeD is sending daily reports from the World Urban Forum to the Spacing Wire. Here is his first report. World Urban Forum – Day One ( Monday...
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Parks, Plazas and Squares
Project for Public Spaces‘ website has a new series of articles on public Parks, Plazas & Squares including their approach to design and Ten...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Chainless bike
I’ve had a bad two weeks with my bike — three flat tires. I have surmised that something is caught inside my tire which is causing the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Munro to Miller: Commit the City to New Streetcars Now
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. Last week, the Toronto Budget Advisory Committee voted down a proposal to purchase new streetcars rather than rebuild 96...
By James Bow -
Port Authority sues CommunityAIR
According to the CBC, the Toronto Port Authority has filed a $3-million lawsuit against CommunityAIR, (the group that helped stop the bridge to the...
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Vancouver takes on the World
As a tribute to the UN Habitat World Urban Forum taking place in Vancouver this week, Vancouver weekly The Georgia Straight dedicated many of its pages to...
By Laura Hatcher -
Excuse me, but we’re number 3!
While Toronto may lag behind other cities it our quest to be a “world-class city” (probably now the most over-hyped and meaningless word in...
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New Toronto recycle calendar goes back in time
Spacing Wire reader Derek Wuenschirs sent us an email today that was a good laugh — the City has released the new recycling calendar for 2006 and...
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Sprawl from Space
Two University of Toronto profs and some others have studied the spread of urban sprawl in the late 20th century by creating composite satellite maps of...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered